Little Salt Springs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

“Little Salt Spring is an archaeological and paleontological site in North Port, Florida. The site has been owned by the University of Miami since 1980 with research performed there by the university's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.”
Wikipedia article Little Salt Spring, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 103 National Register listings published here for Sarasota County · listed in 1979 · category: Site.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off U.S. 41, North Port Charlotte, 34287
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. site
Census division. North Port
National Register reference number. 79000692 - 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

1956 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Little Salt Springs, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Little Salt Springs, surveyed 1956

Fires near this property

841 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 841 fires within 5 miles of Little Salt Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,151 acres in total. 278 started naturally. 71 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	278
Equipment and vehicle use	180
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	141
Misuse of fire by a minor	93
Arson/incendiarism	71
Recreation and ceremony	22
Railroad operations and maintenance	22
Debris and open burning	14
Fireworks	14
Smoking	4
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
18 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	58-PRICE IS RIGHT FIRE-0500
17 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 September 1997	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

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Little Salt Springs: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
	Coronet Road Processing Plant	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Plant

Every working recorded in Sarasota County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1956 USGS Murdock quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
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	2.0 miles	1977
Warm Mineral Springs Building Complex	2.0 miles	2019
Warm Mineral Springs Motel	2.5 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000692 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.
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.