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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.

Sarasota Springs within Sarasota County

Then and now

1947 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Sarasota Springs, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Sarasota Springs, surveyed 1947

Population over time

2 figures

Sarasota 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.

YearPeople Change
201014,395
202012,521-1,874 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

44 since 1992

Regional 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 minor10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2009Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service58-RICHARDSON FIRE-0467
10 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-PROCTOR FIRE-0568
19 July 1993Misuse of fire by a minor25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1995Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSAWYER RD. (58)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown Road PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Newburn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Piney Point Nu-GulfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant

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
Hyde Park0.5 miles13
Pinecraft1.3 miles13
Southgate1.6 miles14
Bee Ridge1.7 miles13
Sunnyland1.8 miles13
South Gate Ridge1.8 miles13
Fruitville1.8 miles13
Ridge Wood Heights2.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Sarasota SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2429142The 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.