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South Sarasota, 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 34231. It lies near Edwards Islands. The Survey maps it on the Sarasota quadrangle. 5,133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

South Sarasota 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 South Sarasota, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of South Sarasota, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

On record in South Sarasota

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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

South Sarasota grew from 4,950 to 5,133 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
20104,950
20205,133+183 (+4%)

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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of South Sarasota between 1992 and 2018, burning about 112 acres in total. 1 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 minor7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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)
1 June 1994Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
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

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 South Sarasota: 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Sarasota in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2014LightningSouth Sarasota1 killedA 39 year old man was struck and killed by lightning while roofing a home near Siesta Key. The man was taken to a nearby hospital but was unable to be revived.

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 Trail0.9 miles14
Ridge Wood Heights1.0 miles14
Siesta Key1.5 miles14
Bailey Hall1.6 miles14
Sarasota Heights1.9 miles14
South Gate Ridge1.9 miles13
Southgate1.9 miles14
Sunnyland2.1 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 South SarasotaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2324252The 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 1867210. 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.