El Jobean Post Office and General Store

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

“The El Jobean Post Office and General Store is a historic combined store and post office in El Jobean, Florida, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article El Jobean Post Office and General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Charlotte County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1923.

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.
Address. 4370 Garden Rd., El Jobean, 33953
When was it listed? August 1999
Category. building
Census division. Port Charlotte
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 99001028 - 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.

Topographic sheet covering El Jobean Post Office and General Store, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet covering El Jobean Post Office and General Store, surveyed 1956

Fires near this property

649 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 649 fires within 5 miles of El Jobean Post Office and General Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,178 acres in total. 163 started naturally. 64 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
Equipment and vehicle use	200
Natural	163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	93
Arson/incendiarism	64
Misuse of fire by a minor	58
Railroad operations and maintenance	22
Recreation and ceremony	18
Debris and open burning	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Fireworks	7
Smoking	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
9 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	YORK AVE (08)
5 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	08-EL JOBEAN PARK FIRE-0452
28 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	08-TIPPECANOE ONE FIRE-0454
25 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Jobean, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2015	Tornado (EF0)	El Jobean	$10,000	A Myakka State Forest Ranger reported tornado damage to a ranger station and a mobile home trailer at around 3:50 am. A subsequent NWS storm survey found a 50 yard wide, one mile long intermittent path of damage that included snapped and uprooted trees and a mobile home trailer that had been picked up and tossed 30 to 40 yards. The damage was found to be consistent with an EF-0 tornado making multiple touchdowns with estimated peak winds of 85 mph. The survey found low end EF-0 damage to the east of the Myakka River that included minor roof damage, a bent stop sign pole, and numerous broken tree branches.
September 1993	Hail	El Jobean	-	Marble-size hail fell.

Every storm recorded in Charlotte 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 Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS El Jobean quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	El Jobean Hotel	under 500 feet	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charlotte County	All 16 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.
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.