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Nokomis Beach, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Osprey-Laurel-Nokomis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34275. It lies near Turner Key. The Survey maps it on the Laurel quadrangle.

Nokomis Beach within Sarasota County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Nokomis Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Nokomis Beach, surveyed 1943

On record in Nokomis Beach

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Nokomis Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 817 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 4 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
Natural48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-15-1104
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2020Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRANCH RD 2 (58)
6 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-KILPATRICK FIRE-0465
2 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Nokomis Beach: 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, 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
Dot Sarasota - Cow Pen Slough MineSandUnknownSand
Everglades Estates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Laurel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Laurel Pit Fla. Truck. & Excava.CalciumProducer
Rigby PitCalciumProducer

Every working 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
Laurel1.0 miles13
Nokomis1.5 miles14
Laurel Villa1.8 miles13
Venice Beach2.0 miles14
Venice2.0 miles14
Eastgate3.3 miles14
Osprey4.9 miles13
Venice Gardens5.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122562075The 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 287755. 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.