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.
Then and now
1944 to 1994The 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.


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.
Revere Quality Institute Houselisted 2008 · 0.4 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSiesta 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,565 | |
| 2020 | 5,454 | -1,111 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 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
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional 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 minor | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 July 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 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) |
| 20 April 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 15-211 MCINTOSH MIDDLE FIRE |
| 3 March 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 58-EDWARDS ISLAND FIRE-0172 |
| 13 March 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 58-ORANGE AVE FIRE-0201 |
| 3 February 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piney Point Nu-Gulf | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Plant |
Storms near this place
6 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Lightning | Siesta Key | 1 hurt | A 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Siesta Key | $100,000 | The 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Siesta Key | $2,000 | A public social media post showed a tree blocking Midnight Pass Road near Hidden Way in Siesta Key. |
| June 2024 | Flood | Siesta Key | - | Public video posted to social media depicted multiple areas of flooding across parts of Siesta Key. |
| October 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Siesta Key | - | A social media video showed a waterspout briefly making landfall as a tornado near Lido Key. |
| July 2005 | Rip Current | Siesta 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Trail | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Sarasota Heights | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Bailey Hall | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| South Sarasota | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Southgate | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Ridge Wood Heights | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Sarasota | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| South Gate Ridge | 3.1 miles | 13 |
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 Key | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1787284 | 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 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.









