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History · Ormond Beach

Ormond Beach dates to 1875, and 12 of its places are on the National Register

More historic than 39% of U.S. towns · #114 of 638 in Florida. What drives it

Most of Ormond Beach was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: 11 old photos and papers, maps from 1944 on, and the census since 1890.

1875founded
12on the National Register
1%homes built before 1940
11old photos & papers
6famous people
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From Ormond Beach’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Ormond Beach began

When was Ormond Beach founded?

1875

Ormond Beach dates its founding to 1875 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1890.

First census: 239 in 18902020 census: 43,080151 years

How historic is Ormond Beach?

C+

More historic than 39% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1833.The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Ormond Beach’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Ormond Beach is more historic than 39% of U.S. towns, #114 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Ormond Beach’s overall grade.
Founding era1875, from Wikidata: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19401.3% of homes (±0.5) · typical FL town 0.6% · U.S. 8.4%DNational Register12 listings, 2.7 per 10,000 residents · typical FL town 0.0 · U.S. 2.4A−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 39%
NewerOlder
Florida towns of 2,500+ (638)Ahead of 82%

Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Ormond Beach’s 2.7 sits above most of its state (78% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 12 listings outnumber those of 77% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to B. The pre-1940 share (±0.5 points) is firm at this size. Two sources give 1875.

Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Ormond Beach’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Ormond Beach, and 9 old place names are still on the map.Landmarks on the Register12 places on the National Register.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Ormond Beach’s post office has been open since 1906. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Tomoka
1833–1895
New Britain
1875–1880
Ormond
1880–1953
Ormond Beach
1906–today
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Arroyo Mobile Home ParkBear Creek Mobile Home ParkCamelot Mobile Home ParkEllinor VillageGranada Mobile Home ParkKurras Mobile VillageLife Mobile Home ParkRidgecrest Mobile Home ParkSweetgum Mobile Home Park
Gone or out of use
Ormond Beach Post Officepost office
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Ormond Beach
FrenchGethsemaneGroover CreekHillsideOak RidgePilgrims RestVolusia Memorial Park

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

On the National Register

12 historic places in Ormond Beach

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
12
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
12
each building in a district counts
first listed
1972
Casements, The
Casements, TheNocorocoAnderson-Price Memorial Library Building, built 1915Lippincott MansionPorches, TheRowallanHammocks, TheDix HouseTalahlokaOrmond Yacht ClubCasements AnnexThree Chimneys Archaeological Site
BuildingsSites

Architectural styles listings

Shingle Style2
Queen Anne1
Romanesque Revival1
Classical Revival1
Frame Vernacular1
Spanish Revival1
Casements, TheShingle Style
NocorocoSite
Anderson-Price Memorial Library BuildingBuilt 1915
Lippincott MansionQueen Anne
Porches, TheBuilding
RowallanClassical Revival
Hammocks, TheShingle Style
Dix HouseBuilding
All 12 listings
TalahlokaBuilding · listed 1989Ormond Yacht ClubBuilding · listed 2005Casements AnnexBuilding · listed 1988Three Chimneys Archaeological SiteSite · listed 2010

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story

How Ormond Beach came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Ormond Beach.

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The Timucuan town of Nocoroco was located where the Tomoka River joins the Halifax River, just north of present-day Ormond Beach, when Álvaro Mexía passed through it in 1605 on a mission to establish relations between Spanish Florida and the Surruque and Ais peoples of the coast of what are now Volusia and Brevard counties. Little is known of what happened to inhabitants of the area after Mexía's visit.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Ormond Beach, 1833 to 1998

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Post officeThe Tomoka post office opens
  3. 1875
    FoundingOrmond Beach is established
  4. 1875Post officeThe New Britain post office opens
  5. 1880In the archiveOrmond Beach
  6. 1880Post officeThe New Britain post office closes
  7. 1880Post officeThe Ormond post office opens
  8. 1890In the archiveSailing on the beach, Ormond, Florida
  9. 1895Post officeThe Tomoka post office closes
  10. 20th century
  11. 1915BuiltAnderson-Price Memorial Library Building is built
  12. 1944On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  13. 1953Post officeThe Ormond post office closes
  14. 1961Born hereDee Mewbourne is born here
  15. 1965Born hereClifford Reed is born here
  16. 1975Born hereAlan Gustafson is born here
  17. 1998Born hereKai Koreniuk is born here
By decade

Ormond Beach, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1880s9 items
Ormond Beach1880Ormond BeachBeach at Ormond, The1880Beach at Ormond, TheNear Bostrom's, Ormond1880Near Bostrom's, OrmondBostrom's, near Ormond1880Bostrom's, near OrmondOrmond Hammock, The1880Ormond Hammock, TheBostrom's Gate, Ormond1880Bostrom's Gate, OrmondRoad to Bostrom's, Ormond1880Road to Bostrom's, OrmondOrange grower's home, Ormond1880Orange grower's home, OrmondChimneys, Ormond hammock, The1880Chimneys, Ormond hammock, The
1890s2 items
Sailing on the beach, Ormond, Florida1890Sailing on the beach, Ormond, FloridaHotel Ormond from bridge, Ormond, Fla1890Hotel Ormond from bridge, Ormond, Fla
1900s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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On the map

Ormond Beach on the map, 1944 to 1993

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Ormond Beach. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Ormond Beach on the 1944 USGS mapOrmond Beach on the 1956 USGS mapOrmond Beach on the 1970 USGS mapOrmond Beach on the 1980 USGS mapOrmond Beach on the 1993 USGS map1944Ormond sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Ormond Beach.

Then & now

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Retake this viewOrmond Beach, 1880

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Ormond Beach’s page.

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People over time

Ormond Beach, census by census

05,00010,00015,00020,00025,00030,00035,00040,00045,000190019201940196019802000202043,080

Grew from 239 people in 1890 to 43,080 in 2020, more than tenfold.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Ormond Beach’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

6 famous people were born in Ormond Beach

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Alan GustafsonNASCAR crew chief · b. 1975
Dee MewbourneRetired United States Navy vice admiral · b. 1961
K
Kai KoreniukDutch-American soccer player · b. 1998
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Clifford ReedAmerican basketball player-coach · b. 1965
B
Ben BrainardAmerican stand-up comedian and social media per… · b. 1996
K
Ken StatonGolfer · b. 1972
Help out

Finish Ormond Beach’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Ormond-by-the-SeaIts storyDDaytona Beach27 historic placesBHolly Hill2 historic placesA−

Questions about Ormond Beach’s history

What year was Ormond Beach founded?

In 1875, according to Wikidata. Ormond Beach’s post office opened in 1833, and the census of 1890 counted 239 people here.

How does Ormond Beach rank for history?

Ormond Beach is more historic than 39% of U.S. towns, #114 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in Ormond Beach?

12 listings: 10 buildings, among them the Casements, The (listed 1972, the first), and 2 sites.

How old are the homes in Ormond Beach?

1% of Ormond Beach’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1984.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From the Library of Congress (11), the National Register of Historic Places (12), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.