Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1950.
From the record
“The "Doc" Thomas House is a national historic site located at 5530 Sunset Dr., just east of South Miami, Florida in Miami-Dade County. Completed in 1932, it was the residence of Arden Hayes Thomas, who had moved to Dade County from Indiana to open a drug store in the 1920s.”
Wikipedia article Arden "Doc" Thomas House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 14000320 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1950 to 1994
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.
19501994
Fires near this property
22 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Thomas, Arden "Doc", House
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 154 acres in total. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Natural
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Debris and open burning
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Thomas, Arden "Doc", House: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
South Miami, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 flash flood.
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.
Emergency management reported a fence blown over and large hardwood tree branch down due to a thunderstorm wind gust. Radar estimated winds were 45 to 50 mph in the area.
Persistent heavy rains from slow moving showers and thunderstorms produced an isolated area of flash flooding near the Falls Shopping Mall in Miami-Dade County during the late afternoon and early evening. Measured rainfall amounts were in the range of 7 to 10 inches in the matter of just a few hours. The first report of flooding was received at 5:10 PM EDT with streets nearly impassable and the Falls parking lot almost completely under water. Several cars were also reported to have been flooded. Water entered structures in the Village at the Falls Condo development with the Oak Ridge Residential Community also reporting water intrusion into a vehicle which caused a total loss of the car. Residents moved their cars to side streets to avoid further damage. Some rainfall reports received included a local Ham Operator with 7.71 inches in his rain gauge near the intersection of Sunset Dr. and 97th Ave. with a mesonet site near 63rd Ave. and SW 120th St. recording 9.05 inches. The heaviest total was received from a Cocorahs observer in Kendall with 10 inches.
A member of broadcast media reported a large tree down along Campo Sano Avenue in Coral Gables after a strong thunderstorm passed through the area. A measured wind gust of 47 mph was recorded from the WeatherSTEM site at the University of Miami campus around the time of the event.
The public reported via social media a downed tree at the University of Miami near Dickinson Drive due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. Estimated wind speeds in the 60 to 70 mph range.
A trained spotter along with various members of the public reported street flooding across portions of Miami-Dade County due to heavy rainfall. Rainfall estimates around 2-4 inches. The intersection of Bird Road and Le Jeune Road had standing water exceeding the curb, there was street flooding along Stanford Drive on the University of Miami's campus, street flooding along North Greenway Drive and Cordova Street in Coral Gables, and street flooding on Granada Boulevard and South Greenway Drive where flooding was over the curbs and halfway up car tires.
An off-duty NWS Employee reported roadways with several inches of water, some roadways impassable, in Coconut Grove and along Percival Ave and Oak Ave from a thunderstorm and heavy rain that passed through the area.
An off-duty NWS Employee reported multiple medium and large sized tree branches down near Hammock Oaks and Old Cutler Rd. Wind gust estimated based off radar at approximately 42 mph (36 kt), but were likely higher on the ground. Small hail (approximately 0.50 inches, estimated) was also reported with this thunderstorm.
Heavy rain resulted in street flooding in the Coral Gables area, mainly in the vicinity of the University of Miami. Law enforcement reported street flooding along LeJuene Road, resulting in several lanes being blocked off to traffic. Additional reports were received of secondary street flooding up to curb level with 1ft of water reports in spots.
Street flooding was reported in South Miami and The Falls from very heavy rains. A former NWS employee measured 6 inches of rain in a little over 3 hours in South Miami. Street flooding was reported at the intersection of SW 40th Street and SW 67th Avenue in South Miami, as well as along SW 136th Street near The Falls Mall.
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.
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.
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.
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