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Venice Gardens, 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. 3,402 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

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

Population over time

2 figures

Venice Gardens fell from 7,104 to 3,402 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
20107,104
20203,402-3,702 (-52%)

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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Venice Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,663 acres in total. 67 started naturally. 12 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
Natural67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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)
13 September 1997Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRIDGE ST 2 (58)
4 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-KILPATRICK FIRE-0465
30 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2005Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service58-CENTER RD FIRE-0413
21 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBRIDGE ST (58)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Venice Gardens: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Deans Contracting - Section 35 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
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

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venice Gardens in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindVenice Gardens$2,000A trained spotter reported her in-ground aluminum flag pole snapped in half and a wind anemometer blew away.

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
Venice Groves1.4 miles14
South Venice1.6 miles14
Eastgate1.8 miles14
Plantation1.9 miles12
Venice East1.9 miles14
Southwest Venice2.4 miles14
Venice3.1 miles14
Venice Beach3.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Venice GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2429089The 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 292752. 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.