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Florida State Road 684 is the main road through the community, leading east 7 miles (11 km) to South Bradenton and west across Anna Maria Sound to Bradenton Beach. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Cortez CDP has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13 km 2 ), of which 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2 ) are land and 2.9 square miles (7. ...
The road runs from an intersection with SR 789 in Bradenton Beach east to U.S. Route 41 (US 41) and unsigned SR 55 in South Bradenton. SR 684 is known as Cortez Road its entire length and varies from a two-lane road between Bradenton Beach and Cortez to a four- to six-lane road east of Cortez.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Bradenton has a total area of 14.44 square miles (37.4 km 2), of which 12.11 square miles (31.4 km 2) is land and 2.33 square miles (6.0 km 2) (16.14%) is water. Bradenton is located on US 41 between Tampa and Sarasota. The area is surrounded by waterways, both fresh and saltwater.
In 2009, the area was designated the North Port–Bradenton–Sarasota MSA after North Port qualified as a "principal city" under the metropolitan statistical area definition and was determined to be the largest of the area's three principal cities. [6] In 2013, the MSA was renamed North Port–Sarasota–Bradenton metropolitan statistical area ...
In 1988, area code 407 was introduced for the Orlando area. [1] In 1995, area code 954 was introduced for Broward County. In 1996, area code 239 was introduced for southwest Florida and area code 352 for the areas around Gainesville and Ocala. Many new area codes were introduced in the first two decades of the 21st century, as a result of city ...
Manatee County's first public library was a privately owned rental library created by Julia Fuller at the Mrs. Bass Dry Goods store in 1898. The county's first independent library opened in Bradenton in 1907, followed a Carnegie Library in Palmetto in 1914 and another in Bradenton in 1918. For much of the twentieth century, both cities ...
To the east, across Anna Maria Sound, is the unincorporated community of Cortez, connected to Bradenton Beach by the Cortez Bridge. The city of Bradenton is 10 miles (16 km) to the east. According to the United States Census Bureau, Bradenton Beach has a total area of 1.19 square miles (3.08 km 2), of which 0.52 square miles (1.35 km 2) are ...
Stretching 148 miles (238 km) across the Florida peninsula, State Road 70 (SR 70) spans five Florida counties and straddles the northern boundaries of two more.Its western terminus is at US 41 (14th Street West) south of Bradenton (Manatee County); its eastern terminus is an intersection of Virginia Avenue and South Fourth Street (U.S. Route 1/SR 5) in Fort Pierce (St. Lucie County).