Sarasota Heights, Florida

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.

1944 1994

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 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• South Side Schoollisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Hilton Leech House and Amagansett Art Schoollisted 1995 · 0.5 miles away
• William Martin Armistead Houselisted 2009 · 0.7 miles away
• H.B. William Houselisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
• Paul Rudolph Sarasota High School Additionlisted 2012 · 0.8 miles away
• Sarasota High Schoollisted 1984 · 0.8 miles away
• Rigby's La Plaza Historic Districtlisted 1994 · 0.8 miles away
• Bacheller-Brewer Model Home Estatelisted 1992 · 0.9 miles away
• St. Paul Lutheran Churchlisted 2024 · 0.7 miles away

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.

• 1944 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:24000
• 1944 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Sarasota Heights between 1992 and 2018, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• South Trail
• Siesta Key
• Bailey Hall
• Sarasota
• South Sarasota
• Southgate

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sarasota Heights: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sarasota County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 290680. 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.