Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
From the record
“The William Anderson General Merchandise Store is a historic site in Redland, Florida, United States. Rawls for William "Popp" Anderson, who worked for railroad magnate Henry Flagler, the wood-frame structure is located at 15700 Southwest 232nd Street.”
Wikipedia article William Anderson General Merchandise Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77000402- 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
1949 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19491994
Fires near this property
617 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 617 fires within 5 miles of William Anderson General Merchandise Store
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,497 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 233 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
Arson/incendiarism
233
Railroad operations and maintenance
135
Equipment and vehicle use
111
Misuse of fire by a minor
45
Debris and open burning
27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Recreation and ceremony
15
Natural
12
Smoking
9
Fireworks
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
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
2 workings within 5 miles of William Anderson General Merchandise Store: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 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
Goulds, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 1 waterspout, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Severe flooding occurred over large parts of eastern metro Miami-Dade County beginning during the evening hours of October 30th and continuing well into the next day. The area of heavy rain began over southern sections of the flood area, including Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay and Key Biscayne around 830 PM EDT and spread north to the Pinecrest, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove areas around 10 PM EDT, and from city of Miami to North Bay Village shortly after midnight. Numerous roads were under deep water and reports of dozens of homes with water intrusion were received across this entire area. ||Rainfall amounts were in the 6 to 10 inch range across this area, virtually all of it falling in less than 12 hours. Highest rainfall estimates were in Coconut Grove where up to 12 inches or more may have fallen, causing water to pond to as high as 4 feet in a few areas. A Coral Gables PD official deemed this to be the most flooding he's ever seen in the area. The western half of Key Biscayne was under water.
Lightning struck the roof of a home in the 22600 block of SW 109 Court in Princeton. A patch of about 75-100 barrel tiles at the tip of the roof were broken off by the lightning strike. A fire was sparked but was put out by firefighters before any additional damage could occur.
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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