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One of 30 National Register listings published here for Manatee County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Villa Serena Apartments
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 7014 Willow St., Sarasota, 34243
- When was it listed? September 2000
- Category. building
- Also known as. Whitfield Estates Subdivision MPS
- Census division. Bradenton
- National Register reference number. 00001172 - 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.
Then and now
1947 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
30 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Villa Serena Apartments between 1992 and 2017, burning about 99 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | UNIVERSITY DESOTO (58) |
| 8 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 June 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 June 1993 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 June 1992 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 June 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 June 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Villa Serena Apartments: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Dolomite, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarks Dolomite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite | Past Producer | ||
| P and R Shell Pit No. 2 | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Minton Dolomite Quarry | Dolomite | Past Producer | ||
| Sarasota Dolomite Quarry | Dolomite | Occurrence |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1947 USGS Bradenton quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Bradenton quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Bradenton quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Whitfield Estates Lantana Avenue Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1997 |
 | Reid-Woods House | 0.2 miles | 2000 |
 | Whitfield Estates-Broughton Street Historic District | 0.7 miles | 1993 |
 | Paul M. Souder House | 0.7 miles | 2000 |
| Austin House | 0.8 miles | 1998 | |
 | Stevens-Gilchrist House | 0.8 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00001172 in Record Group 79. |
| Manatee County | All 30 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.