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Manasota Key, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grove City-Rotonda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34223. It stands on Gottfried Creek. The Survey maps it on the Englewood quadrangle. 1,326 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Manasota Key within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Manasota Key, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Manasota Key, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Manasota Key grew from 1,229 to 1,326 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
20101,229
20201,326+97 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Manasota Key between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,754 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 13 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
Natural84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2001Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOUNDRY (58)
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBARNACLE CT (58)
6 August 1992Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceENGLEWOOD SPORTS COMPLEX (58)
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-YARDLEY FIRE-0468

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Manasota Key: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Sand. 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
Handy Phil - Handy Phil PitSandProducer
Pit Number 007CalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manasota Key in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindManasota Key$5,000Charlotte County Emergency Management forwarded pictures of a metal porch ripped off a home in Rotonda.

Every storm recorded in Charlotte 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
Punta Gorda Beach0.4 miles12
New Point Comfort0.7 miles12
Grove City1.5 miles12
Shaefer1.9 miles12
Sancassa2.7 miles12
Rotonda4.4 miles12
Rotunda-West5.6 miles12
Cape Haze6.0 miles12

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 Manasota KeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1655410The 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 1867173. 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.