John M. Beasley House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“Beasley House is a house at 7706 Westmoreland Drive, Sarasota, Florida in Manatee County which was built in Mediterranean Revival style in 1926. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article John M. Beasley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Manatee County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Beasley, John M., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7706 Westmoreland Dr., Sarasota, 34243
When was it listed? March 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Whitfield Estates Subdivision MPS
Census division. Bradenton
National Register reference number. 96000358 - 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

1947 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering John M. Beasley House, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering John M. Beasley House, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of John M. Beasley House between 1992 and 2017, burning about 89 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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	8
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
1 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	UNIVERSITY DESOTO (58)
8 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 June 1993	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 June 1992	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
13 June 1994	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
13 June 1994	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Manatee County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of John M. Beasley House: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Dolomite, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Clarks Dolomite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite	Past Producer
P and R Shell Pit No. 2	Calcium	Producer
Sarasota Dolomite Quarry	Dolomite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Manatee 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.

1947 USGS Bradenton quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Bradenton quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Bradenton quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 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
Stevens-Gilchrist House	under 500 feet	2001
Austin House	under 500 feet	1998
Whitfield Estates-Broughton Street Historic District	0.1 miles	1993
Paul M. Souder House	0.1 miles	2000
Kreissle Forge	0.4 miles	1996
Reid-Woods House	0.7 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000358 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manatee County	All 30 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.