Warm Mineral Springs Motel

Built in 1958 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1944.

From the record

“Warm Mineral Springs Motel is a historic 1958 motel building near Warm Mineral Springs, Florida, in Sarasota County. It was designed by Victor Lundy, a member of the Sarasota School of Architecture.”
Wikipedia article Warm Mineral Springs Motel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 103 National Register listings published here for Sarasota County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1958, modern architecture.

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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 12597 S. Tamiami Trail, North Port, 34287
When was it listed? February 2013
Category. building
Also known as. Sarasota School of Architecture MPS
Census division. North Port
When was it built? 1958
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 12001255 - 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

1944 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Warm Mineral Springs Motel, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Warm Mineral Springs Motel, surveyed 1944

Fires near this property

682 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 682 fires within 5 miles of Warm Mineral Springs Motel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,275 acres in total. 234 started naturally. 50 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
Natural	234
Equipment and vehicle use	145
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120
Misuse of fire by a minor	70
Arson/incendiarism	50
Railroad operations and maintenance	18
Recreation and ceremony	16
Debris and open burning	13
Fireworks	11
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	58-QUICK RIDGE FIRE-0423
3 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MORTON AVE. (08) -0553
15 September 2007	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	58-SOUTH RIVER RD FIRE-0495
14 September 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	COKER RD. (58)

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Storms near this property

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Port, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 5 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 wildfire. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2001	Wildfire	North Port	1 hurt, $100,000	no account filed
April 2000	Wildfire	North Port	$250,000	Wildfires destroyed a fire truck, consumed a home, damaged an out building and burned over 300 acres of brush and scrub trees along U.S. Highway 41 and the Myakka River Bridge west of North Port.
September 2000	Tornado (F0)	North Port	$60,000	A short lived tornado, that originated in Charlotte county and was associated with an outer rainband of Hurricane Gordon, briefly touched down, snapped a few trees, downed power lines and damaged a few carports, east of the intersection of Interstate 75 and Toledo Blade Boulevard. The tornado continued to sporadically touch down along a narrow path as it moved rapidly north across Interstate 75 over rural southeast Sarasota county before it lifted and dissipated.
August 2000	Hail	North Port	$50,000	The North Port Police Department reported golfball sized hail which caused paint and body damage to several vehicles throughout North Port.
April 1993	Tornado (F0)	North Port	$50,000	Four houses received minor damage from a brief tornado touchdown. Roofs were damaged, windows broken, screening damaged, a truck toper damaged, and trees were mangled or uprooted.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	North Port	$42,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of three mobile homes at the Holiday Mobile Home Park. Thirty large trees were also downed by the thunderstorm winds along Cheryl Lane and Euclid Avenues in North Port.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	North Port	$5,000	Florida Power & Light utility and the public reported that a few large trees, limbs and power lines were downed in North Port over extreme southern Sarasota county.
January 1998	Tornado (F0)	North Port	$5,000	A short lived tornado touched down along Kaayan Street between Price and Norlendale Boulevards and downed several power lines, snapped tree tops and blew down stop signs before it lifted and dissipated.
July 2007	Tornado (EF0)	North Port	$1,000	A brief tornado touchdown was viewed by the public near the intersections of Price Blvd. and Raintree Blvd. Law enforcement found debris in the road from downed trees and road signs.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	North Port	$1,000	Thunderstorm wind toppled two large trees on top of a house which caused major damage to the roof of the home. A second home received minor to moderate roof damage from large branches downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2023	Flood	North Port	-	Local EM reported multiple street closures in North Port due to heavy afternoon and evening rainfall.
December 2022	Tornado (EF0)	North Port	-	EM, media, and public all relayed pictures and video of lanai damage and additional picture of a large tree downed near the lanai. Radar indicates brief rotation and videos support a tornado designation. Estimated ef-0 strength with winds of 85 mph.
May 2013	Hail	North Port	-	There were numerous reports on social media of quarter sized hail and one picture of golf ball sized hail in North Port.
May 2012	Hail	North Port	-	Public reported golf ball sized hail in North Port.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	North Port	-	Emergency management damage survey found approximately 13 homes with minor roof and fence damage and one home with about a third of the roof torn off. Additionally, a large oak tree with no root ball was downed. Damage occurred in an east to west path from around Oxwood Street to North Port Boulevard.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	North Port	-	Multiple trees down and several businesses signs down.
June 2002	Lightning	North Port	-	Brush fires sparked by lightning near Warm Mineral Springs burned about 500 acres south of Interstate 75. At one time, the fire came within a quarter mile of the interstate, threatening to close it.
August 2000	Hail	North Port	-	A Skywarn Spotter reported dime sized hail near the intersection of Toledo Blade Road and East Price Boulevard in North Port.
June 1999	Hail	North Port	-	Quarter sized hail was reported near the intersection of Interstate 75 and Toledo Blade Boulevard by the Sarasota County Sheriffs Department.
November 2002	Flash Flood	North Port	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sarasota 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.

1944 USGS Myakka River quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Myakka River quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Myakka River quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Warm Mineral Springs Building Complex	0.7 miles	2019
Warm Mineral Springs	0.7 miles	1977
Little Salt Springs	2.5 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001255 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sarasota County	All 103 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.
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.