Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.
From the record
“The Lemon Bay Woman's Club is a historic woman's club in Englewood, Florida, United States. A center of community organizing, philanthropy, and formerly of worship, it is located at 51 North Maple Street.”
Wikipedia article Lemon Bay Woman's Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 103 National Register listings published here for Sarasota County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88001150- 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 1981
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19561981
Fires near this property
202 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Lemon Bay Woman's Club
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,213 acres in total. 102 started naturally. 11 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
102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
32
Equipment and vehicle use
18
Arson/incendiarism
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
11
Debris and open burning
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
6
Recreation and ceremony
6
Smoking
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Fireworks
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Lemon Bay Woman's Club: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Sand. 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
Englewood, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
A total of 5 to 9 inches of rain fell during the event with the hardest hit area along Price and Salford Boulevards in North Port. The flooding was severe enough that the American Red Cross opened a shelter for displaced residents.
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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