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Photograph of Midway Subdivision Historic District
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Midway Subdivision Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“The Midway Subdivision Historic District, also known as Midway Groves, is a U.S. historic district located in Manatee County, Florida a short distance north of the Manatee-Sarasota county line. It has the post office address of 7201 15th Street East in Sarasota.”

Wikipedia article Midway Subdivision Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Manatee County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7201 15th St. E, Sarasota, 34243
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Bradenton
  • National Register reference number. 98000587 - 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 Midway Subdivision Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Midway Subdivision Historic District, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Midway Subdivision Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 126 acres in total. 8 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 minor9
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceUNIVERSITY DESOTO (58)
8 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1995Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1993Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Manatee County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Midway Subdivision Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clarks Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, DolomitePast Producer
P and R Shell Pit No. 2CalciumProducer
Bradenton Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Minton Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Sarasota Dolomite QuarryDolomiteOccurrence

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kreissle Forge1.4 miles1996
Reid-Woods House1.4 miles2000
Villa Serena Apartments1.4 miles2000
Whitfield Estates Lantana Avenue Historic District1.5 miles1997
Paul M. Souder House1.5 miles2000
Whitfield Estates-Broughton Street Historic District1.5 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000587 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manatee CountyAll 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.