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Anna Maria, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bradenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34216. It lies near School Key. The Survey maps it on the Anna Maria quadrangle. 968 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Anna Maria within Manatee County

Then and now

1921 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Anna Maria, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Anna Maria, surveyed 1921

Population over time

2 figures

Anna Maria fell from 1,503 to 968 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,503
2020968-535 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Anna Maria between 1995 and 2016, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
4 July 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugeWEST BEACH
26 July 2016Natural79 acresEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugeEGMONT KEY
2 November 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugePILOT TOWN
23 October 1998Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manatee County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anna Maria in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 storm surge/tide, 2 waterspout. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2002Rip CurrentAnna Maria1 killedA 60 year old male German tourist lost his life as a result of rip currents while swimming with his wife in the Gulf of Mexico. Relatively large waves of three to five feet were found at the Manatee County Public Beach as a result of Hurricane Isidore spinning over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Tides of one to two feet above astronomical normals combined with the wave action to produce rip currents. Lifeguards were flying caution flags warning of rough surf.
July 2000Flash FloodAnna Maria$1,000,000Heavy rainfall of 7 to 11 inches in less than twelve hours caused extensive flooding of homes, businesses and roadways from Anna Maria south to Bradenton Beach in extreme western Manatee county. Floodwaters were reported three to four feet above street level in Anna Maria and Holmes Beach with nearly 50 homes damaged.
January 1999Storm Surge/TideAnna Maria$200,000no account filed
January 1998Storm Surge/TideAnna Maria$200,000no account filed
July 2000Flash FloodAnna Maria$100,000Six to eight inches of rain in less than four hours caused flooding of up to 15 homes from Anna Maria east to Bradenton. Numerous roads and low lying areas incurred standing water up to two feet deep from the heavy rain in extreme northwest Manatee county.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindAnna Maria$100,000Thunderstorm winds caused minor roof, carport and lanai damage along State Road 64 from Anna Maria east to Bradenton. A few large trees and several branches were downed by thunderstorm winds in the 400 block of 34th Street West in Bradenton.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindAnna Maria$100,000Thunderstorm winds caused minor roof damage to several homes and downed trees and power lines from Anna Maria Island to Bradenton.
September 2001Flash FloodAnna Maria$100,000no account filed
September 1997FloodAnna Maria$75,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAnna Maria$50,000Winds, estimated at 45 to 50 mph, removed a large portion of a roof from a beachfront motel in Anna Maria, on the western barrier island of Manatee county.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindAnna Maria$15,000Thunderstorm winds caused shingle damage to three to four houses.
January 1997Tornado (F0)Anna Maria$3,000A brief short-lived tornado touched down and removed the roof of a mobile home and snapped a telephone pole in the Paradise Bay Mobile Home Park on Anna Maria Island before it receded and dissipated.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindAnna Maria-A home weather station on Anna Maria Island recorded a 54 knot thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAnna Maria-The wind gust was measured at the Anna Maria COMPS station.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAnna Maria-The wind gust was measured by a COMPS station on the island.
September 1998WaterspoutAnna Maria-A waterspout was reported two miles northwest of Anna Maria.
September 1998WaterspoutAnna Maria-A waterspout was observed offshore of Coquina and Manatee Beaches.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindAnna Maria-Thunderstorm winds gusts of 61 mph were observed by a Skywarn Spotter. Several trees and power lines were downed on Anna Maria Island by the thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Manatee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Holmes Beach2.7 miles15
Ilexhurst3.1 miles15
Bradenton Beach4.7 miles15
Cortez5.0 miles15
Palma Sola5.5 miles15
Palma Sola Park5.8 miles15
Terra Mana6.6 miles17
West Bradenton6.6 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Anna MariaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q561969The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 277889. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.