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Photograph of Paul M. Souder House
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Paul M. Souder House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“Souder House is a national historic site located at 242 Greenwood Avenue, Sarasota, Florida in Manatee County.”

Wikipedia article Paul M. Souder House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Manatee County · listed in 2000 · 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 6 structuress, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Souder, Paul M., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 242 Greenwood Ave., Sarasota, 34243
  • When was it listed? November 2000
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Whitfield Estates Subdivision MPS
  • Census division. Bradenton
  • Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00001282 - 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 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Paul M. Souder House, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Paul M. Souder House, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Paul M. Souder House between 1992 and 2017, burning about 90 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 minor8
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceUNIVERSITY DESOTO (58)
8 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1993Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 1992Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1994Equipment and vehicle use15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 June 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 June 1994Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Manatee County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Paul M. Souder House: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clarks Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, DolomitePast Producer
P and R Shell Pit No. 2CalciumProducer
Sarasota Dolomite QuarryDolomiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Manatee County

Maps showing this location

9 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

6 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
Whitfield Estates-Broughton Street Historic Districtunder 500 feet1993
Austin Houseunder 500 feet1998
Stevens-Gilchrist Houseunder 500 feet2001
John M. Beasley House0.1 miles1996
Kreissle Forge0.4 miles1996
Reid-Woods House0.5 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001282 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manatee CountyAll 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.