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Vamo, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sarasota census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34231. It stands on Catfish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Laurel quadrangle. 2,822 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Vamo within Sarasota County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vamo, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Vamo, surveyed 1943

Population over time

2 figures

Vamo fell from 4,727 to 2,822 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
20104,727
20202,822-1,905 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Vamo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 551 acres in total. 19 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
22 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-15-1104
6 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2005Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service58-IBIS PASTURE FIRE-0414
12 August 2005Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2005-15-0401
9 July 2002Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service85-IBIS FIRE-0318
19 July 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vamo in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2020Tornado (EF0)Vamo-A brief tornado touched down in Sarasota south of Hwy 72 and just east of I-75. Location based on photos and radar at the time.

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
Osprey1.8 miles13
White Beach2.0 miles12
Palmer Ranch2.0 miles13
Point O'Rocks2.6 miles12
Gulf Gate Estates2.6 miles14
Sunrise3.9 miles13
Bee Ridge4.4 miles13
Sunnyland4.4 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 VamoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570584The 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 292728. 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.

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.