Holmes Beach, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bradenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34217. It lies near Anna Maria Island. The Survey maps it on the Bradenton Beach quadrangle. 3,010 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1944 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
3 figuresHolmes Beach fell from 4,966 to 3,010 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 4,966 | |
| 2010 | 3,836 | -1,130 (-23%) |
| 2020 | 3,010 | -826 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Bradenton Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Bradenton Beach quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Bradenton Beach quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Holmes Beach between 1998 and 2006, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 41-SISTER KEY FIRE-0334 |
| 23 October 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holmes Beach in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 2 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Hail | Holmes Beach | 1 hurt | Gusty winds and golf ball size hail hit a male in the head and left a cut above his right eye. |
| March 1999 | Lightning | Holmes Beach | $3,500,000 | Lightning ignited a fire that caused 3.5 million dollars worth of damage to the three story Playa Encantada Apartment building on the 6000 block of Gulf Drive in Holmes Beach. |
| August 2024 | Lightning | Holmes Beach | $100,000 | Media reported building fire caused by a lighting strike to a shopping plaza on Holmes Beach. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Holmes Beach | - | Waterspout came ashore at the 4000 block of Holmes Beach. No damage was reported. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilexhurst | 0.4 miles | 15 | |
| Bradenton Beach | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Cortez | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Anna Maria | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Palma Sola Park | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Longbeach | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Palma Sola | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Whitney Beach | 4.8 miles | 15 |
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 Holmes Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2004474 | The 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 284190. 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.








