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North Sarasota, 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 34234. The Survey maps it on the Sarasota quadrangle. 2,418 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

North Sarasota 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 North Sarasota, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Sarasota, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

North Sarasota fell from 6,982 to 2,418 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
20106,982
20202,418-4,564 (-65%)

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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of North Sarasota between 1992 and 2017, burning about 302 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural11
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
1 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceUNIVERSITY DESOTO (58)
5 August 2009Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service58-RICHARDSON FIRE-0467
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1994Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2003Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHONORE FIRE
19 July 1993Misuse of fire by a minor25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1995Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1995Natural20 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of North Sarasota: 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Dolomite, Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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
Brown Road PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
P and R Shell Pit No. 2CalciumProducer
Piney Point Nu-GulfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Sarasota Dolomite QuarryDolomiteOccurrence
Quality Aggregates - Richardson Rd. PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Quality Aggregates - University Park MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

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
Desoto Acres0.6 miles14
Beverley Terrace0.7 miles14
Desoto Lakes1.5 miles13
Kensington Park1.5 miles13
Sarasota2.7 miles14
The Meadows2.8 miles13
Pinecraft3.7 miles13
Belspur4.1 miles13

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 North SarasotaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2428983The 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 1867182. 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.