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Sarasota Colony, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Northeast Glades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34974. The Survey maps it on the Brighton SE quadrangle.

Sarasota Colony within Glades County

Then and now

1953 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sarasota Colony, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Sarasota Colony, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Sarasota Colony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,974 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 21 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
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSeminole TribeTIRE
21 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePOPE (22)
15 September 2006Arson/incendiarism200 acresFlorida Forest Service(GL) LOCK AREA (1442)
31 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBIG BEAR FIRE
14 August 2012Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBIG BEAR (22)
11 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1,200 acresFlorida Forest Service(GL) WHISKEY JOE (1302)
1 August 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBULL (22)
8 July 2015Fireworks1.0 acresSeminole TribeFIRE CRACKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glades 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
Lakeport4.4 miles12
Monkey Box5.0 miles11
Fort Centre6.7 miles12
Mayaimi (historical)8.4 miles13
Washington Park11.5 miles11
Moore Haven12.1 miles11
Buckhead Ridge12.1 miles14
Benbow13.1 miles11

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 Q122592188The 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 290679. 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.