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Siesta Key, 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 34242. It lies near Bay Island. The Survey maps it on the Sarasota quadrangle. 5,454 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Siesta Key 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 Siesta Key, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Siesta Key, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

On record in Siesta Key

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 1 record

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

Population over time

2 figures

Siesta Key fell from 6,565 to 5,454 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
20106,565
20205,454-1,111 (-17%)

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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Siesta Key between 1992 and 2018, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
19 July 1993Misuse of fire by a minor25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSAWYER RD. (58)
20 April 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service15-211 MCINTOSH MIDDLE FIRE
3 March 2002Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service58-EDWARDS ISLAND FIRE-0172
13 March 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-ORANGE AVE FIRE-0201
3 February 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Siesta Key: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Piney Point Nu-GulfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant

Every working recorded in Sarasota County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Siesta Key in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 rip current, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020LightningSiesta Key1 hurtA 14-year-old boy was struck in the chest by lightning while he and his family were walking from the beach to their hotel. The boy had numerous burns and a hole in his shoe where the lightning exited his body. He was put on a ventilator and did survive the strike. The family was on vacation from Houston.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSiesta Key$100,000The Florida Power & Light Corporation reported thunderstorm winds downed several large limbs and power lines from Siesta Key east to near the intersection of Interstate 75 and County Road 780 (Fruitville Road) in Sarasota.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindSiesta Key$2,000A public social media post showed a tree blocking Midnight Pass Road near Hidden Way in Siesta Key.
June 2024FloodSiesta Key-Public video posted to social media depicted multiple areas of flooding across parts of Siesta Key.
October 2018Tornado (EF0)Siesta Key-A social media video showed a waterspout briefly making landfall as a tornado near Lido Key.
July 2005Rip CurrentSiesta Key-Lifeguards at Lido Public Beach rescued three young men who were body boarding when they were caught in a rip current and pulled 100 yards offshore.

Every storm 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
South Trail1.1 miles14
Sarasota Heights1.4 miles14
Bailey Hall1.4 miles14
South Sarasota1.5 miles14
Southgate2.2 miles14
Ridge Wood Heights2.3 miles14
Sarasota2.6 miles14
South Gate Ridge3.1 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 Siesta KeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1787284The 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 1802950. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.