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.
Then and now
1943 to 1988The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresVamo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,727 | |
| 2020 | 2,822 | -1,905 (-40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1943 USGS Laurel quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Laurel 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 Laurel quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
60 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 2003-15-1104 |
| 6 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2005 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 58-IBIS PASTURE FIRE-0414 |
| 12 August 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2005-15-0401 |
| 9 July 2002 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 85-IBIS FIRE-0318 |
| 19 July 1998 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 1992 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Tornado (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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osprey | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| White Beach | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Palmer Ranch | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Point O'Rocks | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Gulf Gate Estates | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Sunrise | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Bee Ridge | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sunnyland | 4.4 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 Vamo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2570584 | 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 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.








