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Venice East, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Venice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34293. The Survey maps it on the Venice quadrangle.

Venice East within Sarasota County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Venice East, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Venice East, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Venice East between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,061 acres in total. 94 started naturally. 9 were 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
Natural94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceI75 MM192 (58)
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-QUICK RIDGE FIRE-0423
16 September 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFORBES TRAIL (58)
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRIDGE ST 2 (58)
1 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2015Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIVER RD 41 (58)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Venice East: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Everglades Estates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Everglades PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hanchey MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Laurel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Plantation0.8 miles12
Venice Groves1.4 miles14
Venice Gardens1.9 miles14
South Venice2.4 miles14
Woodmere2.6 miles14
Southwest Venice2.7 miles14
Manasota3.1 miles14
Eastgate3.6 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122541409The 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 292751. 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.