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Manatee County, Florida

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—newspaper titles

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33historic places

—earliest paper

1855formed

399,710pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 33 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966. Most listings are in or near Sarasota, Bradenton, Palmetto.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Manatee titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

14 of 33 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

33 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Austin House	Sarasota	Building	1998
Beasley, John M., House	Sarasota	Building	1996
Benjamin, Judah P., Memorial	Ellenton	Building	1970
Braden Castle Park Historic District	Bradenton	District	1983
Bradenton Carnegie Library	Bradenton	Building	1987
Bradenton Woman's Club	Bradenton	Building	2019
Cortez Historic District	Cortez	Building	1995
Curry Houses Historic District	Bradenton	District	2015
DeSoto National Memorial	Bradenton	Site	1966
Duette School	Parrish	Building	2018
Helm, Johnson, House	Bradenton	Building	2009
Jordan, Rufus P., House	Longboat Key	Building	2005
Kreissle Forge	Sarasota	Building	1996
Madira Bickel Mounds	Terra Ceia Island	Site	1970
Manatee County Courthouse	Bradenton	Building	1998
Manatee County Courthouse (Original)	Bradenton	Building	1976
Midway Subdivision Historic District	Sarasota	District	1998
Palmetto Armory	Palmetto	Building	2012
Palmetto Historic District	Palmetto	District	1986
Portavant Mound Site	Palmetto	Site	1994
Reasoner, Egbert, House	Oneco	Building	1995
Regina Shipwreck Site	Bradenton Beach	Site	2005
Reid-Woods House	Sarasota	Building	2000
Richardson House	Bradenton	Building	2003
Seagate	Sarasota	Building	1983
Shaw's Point Archeological District	Bradenton	District	2001
Souder, Paul M., House	Sarasota	Building	2000
Stevens-Gilchrist House	Sarasota	Building	2001
Terra Ceia Village Improvement Association Hall	Terra Ceia	Building	2003
Villa Serena Apartments	Sarasota	Building	2000
Whitfield Estates Lantana Avenue Historic District	Sarasota	District	1997
Whitfield Estates-Broughton Street Historic District	Sarasota	Building	1993
Woman's Club of Palmetto	Palmetto	Building	1986

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Manatee was formed in 1855 (1855-01-09) from Hillsborough.

MANATEE created from HILLSBOROUGH.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Manatee County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
854	3,544	4,663	18,712	26,098	34,704	69,168	148,442	264,002	399,710

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
De Soto National Memorial	Park unit	25.3 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Braden River Cemetery	27.44677	-82.48695
Fortner Cemetery	27.57292	-82.40456
Keen Cemetery	27.58475	-82.18869
Manasota Memorial Park	27.44643	-82.54876
Mansion Memorial Park	27.52584	-82.52788
Sardis Cemetery	27.28325	-82.19945
Skyway Memorial Gardens	27.56221	-82.56408
Skyway Memorial Gardens	27.51976	-82.58176

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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