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Sarasota Bay is a lagoon located off the central west coast of Florida in the United States.Though no significant single stream of freshwater enters the bay, with a drainage basin limited to 150 square miles in Manatee and Sarasota counties, [1] it is generally treated as an estuary, with three "passes" or inlets giving access from the Gulf of Mexico.
History of Florida. The earliest known identification of the area known today as Sarasota, Florida, was identified on a sheepskin Spanish map from 1763 with the word "Zarazote" written over the location of present-day Sarasota and Bradenton. [1] A 1776 British map by Bernard Romans lists a "Boca Sarasota" in the local area.
Sarasota (/ ˌsærəˈsoʊtə /) is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States. It is located in Southwest Florida, the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area, and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
2901 West Tamiami Circle. 27°21′42″N 82°33′06″W / 27.361667°N 82.551667°W / 27.361667; -82.551667 (Bay Haven School) Sarasota. Part of the Sarasota MRA. 8. Bee Ridge Woman's Club. Bee Ridge Woman's Club. More images. February 10, 1995.
Website. www.scgov.net. Sarasota County is a county located in Southwest Florida. At the 2020 US census, the population was 434,006. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Sarasota [ 3 ] and its largest city is North Port. Sarasota County is part of the North Port–Bradenton–Sarasota, FL metropolitan statistical area.
33,000 (2014) Toll. None. Location. John Ringling Causeway (also known as Ringling Bridge or Gil Waters Bridge[3]) is a causeway that extends past the Sarasota Bay, from Sarasota to St. Armands Key and Lido Key. The 65-foot-tall (20 m) bridge, built in 2003, is a segmental box girder bridge running from Sarasota to Bird Key.
Leonard Reid House. Rigby's La Plaza Historic District. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Rosemary Cemetery. Roth Cigar Factory. Sanderling Beach Club. Sarasota County Courthouse. Sarasota Herald Building. Sarasota High School.
February 3, 2012. Waters and Elsa Burrows Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Osprey, Florida south of Sarasota in Sarasota County. It includes the Bay Preserve at Osprey on Little Sarasota Bay. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 2012. [ 1]