BlockBefore

Warm Mineral Springs, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Port census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34287. The Survey maps it on the Myakka River quadrangle. 5,442 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Warm Mineral Springs 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 Warm Mineral Springs, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Warm Mineral Springs, surveyed 1944

On record in Warm Mineral Springs

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 3 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

Warm Mineral Springs grew from 5,061 to 5,442 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
20105,061
20205,442+381 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

661 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 661 fires within 5 miles of Warm Mineral Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,085 acres in total. 236 started naturally. 53 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
Natural236
Equipment and vehicle use127
Missing data/not specified/undetermined113
Misuse of fire by a minor72
Arson/incendiarism53
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Recreation and ceremony15
Debris and open burning13
Fireworks11
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service58-QUICK RIDGE FIRE-0423
3 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMORTON AVE. (08) -0553
15 September 2007Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service58-SOUTH RIVER RD FIRE-0495

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warm Mineral Springs in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2010LightningWarm Mineral Springs1 hurtA 45-year-old construction worker was struck by lightning while packing up his tools on a jobsite in North Port. The strike entered his right knee and exited his left foot. He suffered burns around the entrance and exit areas and was hospitalized.
June 2012FloodWarm Mineral Springs$250,000The Myakka River reached flood stage on the 27th from heavy rains from Tropical Storm Debby. The flooding continued through the end of the month, ending with a level of 8.12 feet, or 1.12 feet above flood stage. ||The water flooded several homes in the Playmore neighborhood near US 41 west of North Port.
July 2021FloodWarm Mineral Springs$200,000Law enforcement and media reported road closures and 240 homes surrounded by water in North Port due to flooding. There was 2 to 4 feet of water in the streets. About a half of dozen vehicles were stranded in the water and required rescuing.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWarm Mineral Springs$50,000Several manufactured homes along Blackburn Boulevard and Imperial Drive sustained damage when winds ripped off carports and portions of roofs.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWarm Mineral Springs$20,000Strong thunderstorm wind gusts damaged 20 homes in the La Casa Mobile Home Park. Major damage was sustained to one home including the roof being peeling back and subsequent water damage. Minor damage occurred to 6 other homes.
August 2012FloodWarm Mineral Springs$20,000The Myakka River at Ramblers Mobile Home Park flooded it's banks and caused minor flooding to several mobile homes. Water rose up to the doorsteps of several units and flooded parking lots and grassy areas.

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
North Port1.7 miles11
Tarpon Point2.8 miles12
Plantation6.0 miles12
Venice East6.3 miles14
Woodmere7.4 miles14
Venice Groves7.7 miles14
Venice Gardens7.9 miles14
Manasota8.2 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 Warm Mineral SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2375983The 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 292883. 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.