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Bee Ridge, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sarasota census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34233. The Survey maps it on the Bee Ridge quadrangle. 9,955 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Bee Ridge within Sarasota County

Then and now

1947 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bee Ridge, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Bee Ridge, surveyed 1947

On record in Bee Ridge

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Bee Ridge grew from 9,598 to 9,955 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
20109,598
20209,955+357 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Bee Ridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 220 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 minor10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2009Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service58-RICHARDSON FIRE-0467
10 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-PROCTOR FIRE-0568
2 July 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service85-IBIS FIRE-0318
19 July 1993Misuse of fire by a minor25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bee Ridge: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brown Road PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Newburn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Piney Point Nu-GulfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant

Every working recorded in Sarasota County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bee Ridge in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBee Ridge$50,000Broadcast media relayed pictures of a tree that was knocked down on a house and broke through the roof.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBee Ridge$2,000A tree was knocked down onto McIntosh Road between Proctor and Ashton Roads, blocking one lane of traffic.
October 2016HailBee Ridge-A caller reported nickel sized hail falling near I-75 and Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBee Ridge-Broadcast media reported several large trees down in Lake Sarasota.
June 2004HailBee Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sarasota 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
Sunnyland0.7 miles13
South Gate Ridge0.9 miles13
Sarasota Springs1.7 miles13
Ridge Wood Heights1.7 miles14
Hyde Park2.0 miles13
Gulf Gate Estates2.2 miles14
Southgate2.3 miles14
Lake Sarasota2.4 miles13

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 Bee RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q813985The 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 278388. 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.

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.

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.