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Photograph of Bonita Springs School
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Bonita Springs School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

“The Bonita Springs School is a historic school in Bonita Springs, Florida. The property is part of the Lee County Multiple Property Submission, a Multiple Property Submission to the National Register.”

Wikipedia article Bonita Springs School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 10701 Dean St., Bonita Springs, 34135
  • When was it listed? July 1999
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Lee County MPS
  • Census division. Bonita Springs
  • Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 99000800 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Bonita Springs School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,216 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 21 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural56
Railroad operations and maintenance49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2014Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEQUESTRIAN (36)
19 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(36) MYSTERY
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON (11)

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bonita Springs School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bonita PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this property

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonita Springs, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1993Thunderstorm WindBonita Springs$5,000,000Strong winds blew down trees and power lines over an extensive area and ripped the roof of a 7-story building three-quarters of the way off.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindBonita Springs$500,000Strong winds blew down trees, damaged 11 mobile homes severely, 11 had less serious damage, and destroyed seven carports.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindBonita Springs$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew shingles off a house.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBonita Springs$500Power lines downed north of Bonita Springs.

Every storm recorded in Lee County

Maps showing this location

6 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Koreshan Unity Settlement Historic District7.3 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000800 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee CountyAll 50 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.