Sarasota Springs, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sarasota census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34232. The Survey maps it on the Bee Ridge quadrangle. 12,521 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1947 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresSarasota Springs fell from 14,395 to 12,521 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 14,395 | |
| 2020 | 12,521 | -1,874 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1947 USGS Bee Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 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 Bee Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
44 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Sarasota Springs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 289 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 minor | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2009 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 58-RICHARDSON FIRE-0467 |
| 10 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 58-PROCTOR FIRE-0568 |
| 19 July 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 1995 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | SAWYER RD. (58) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sarasota Springs: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Road Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Newburn Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Piney Point Nu-Gulf | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Plant |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde Park | 0.5 miles | 13 | |
| Pinecraft | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Southgate | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Bee Ridge | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Sunnyland | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| South Gate Ridge | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Fruitville | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ridge Wood Heights | 2.3 miles | 14 |
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 Sarasota Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2429142 | The 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 1867200. 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.







