Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Samoset, FL

Samoset is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Manatee County, Florida, bordered to the north by the city of Bradenton, and part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota metropolitan area.

Samoset was once an incorporated city - it incorporated in September 1926 with a reported population of 1,034, during Florida's 1920s land boom.

Barely two years after incorporating, Samoset's residents voted in December 1928 to abolish their city government by a vote of 115 to 31, and the area returned to unincorporated, rural status.

The name Samoset may honor Samoset, the Algonquin leader famous for greeting the Pilgrims at Plymouth, though a newspaper of the time reported the town was named for a flag station of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; the new city's seal featured an Indian head, a palm tree, and the year 1926.

Samoset was formed by consolidating the earlier subdivisions of Listville, Hill Park, and Pinecrest, and William A. Thomas built the community's first general store, a two-story brick building, in 1925.

Samoset's population was 4,146 at the 2020 census, up from 3,854 in 2010.

Samoset had 1,263 households at the 2020 census, with a young median age of 33.8 years, and Hispanic or Latino residents made up 47.4% of its population.

U.S. Route 301 passes through the center of Samoset, leading northwest into Bradenton and south about 10 miles to Sarasota.