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Gulf Gate Estates, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sarasota census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34231. It lies near Siesta Key. The Survey maps it on the Sarasota quadrangle. 7,340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Gulf Gate Estates within Sarasota County

Then and now

1944 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gulf Gate Estates, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Gulf Gate Estates, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Gulf Gate Estates fell from 10,911 to 7,340 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
201010,911
20207,340-3,571 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Gulf Gate Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 197 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-PROCTOR FIRE-0568
19 July 1993Misuse of fire by a minor25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida 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
15 June 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
White Beach1.7 miles12
Point O'Rocks1.8 miles12
South Gate Ridge1.9 miles13
Sunnyland1.9 miles13
Ridge Wood Heights1.9 miles14
Palmer Ranch2.0 miles13
Bee Ridge2.2 miles13
South Sarasota2.3 miles14

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 Gulf Gate EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2429043The 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 1867147. 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.