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Manasota, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Venice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34223. It stands on Forked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Venice quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Manasota within Sarasota County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Manasota, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Manasota, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Manasota between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,368 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 6 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
Natural35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRIDGE ST 2 (58)
30 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-LEMON BAY PARK FIRE-0471
23 August 2011Natural14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROBIN RD. (58) -0543
21 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBRIDGE ST (58)
21 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service58-BRIDGE FIRE 2-0263
18 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2010Natural2.7 acresFlorida Forest Service58-BRIDGE ST FIRE-0260
17 August 1996Natural2.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Manasota: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, 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
Hanchey MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pit Number 007CalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Sarasota County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manasota in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 1998Thunderstorm WindManasota$75,000Thunderstorm winds damaged porch enclosures of ten to fifteen mobile homes on the 6100 block of Manasota Key Road.
January 2015Tornado (EF0)Manasota$20,000A Myakka State Forest Ranger reported tornado damage to a ranger station and a mobile home trailer at around 3:50 am. A subsequent NWS storm survey found a 50 yard wide, one mile long intermittent path of damage that included snapped and uprooted trees and a mobile home trailer that had been picked up and tossed 30 to 40 yards. The damage was found to be consistent with an EF-0 tornado making multiple touchdowns with estimated peak winds of 85 mph. The survey found low end EF-0 damage to the east of the Myakka River that included minor roof damage, a bent stop sign pole, and numerous broken tree branches.

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
Manasota Beach0.6 miles14
Woodmere0.7 miles14
Southwest Venice2.0 miles14
Venice Groves2.6 miles14
South Venice2.8 miles14
Venice East3.1 miles14
Plantation4.0 miles12
Venice Gardens4.0 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 ManasotaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16894549The 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 286345. 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.