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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.
Roughly bounded by Sarasota Bay, U.S. Route 41, Parkview, and North Shore Avenue 27°22′58″N 82°33′40″W / 27.382778°N 82.561111°W / 27.382778; -82.561111 ( Caples'-Ringlings' Estates Historic
Sarasota (/ ˌ s ær ə ˈ s oʊ t ə /) 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 ...
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.
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. [2]
Platted in 1926, the neighborhood originally stretched east from Bayshore Road on the Sarasota Bay across Tamiami Trail all the way to Old Bradenton Road. Patterson Drive and Virginia Drive marked ...
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 33 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 3, 2025.
A new hotel is slated for construction downtown with the go-ahead from the city. The unnamed project, on more than one-third of an acre at 1225, 1233 and 1243 Second St., will consist of 173 rooms ...