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Manatee County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 399,710. [1] Manatee County is part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its county seat and largest city is Bradenton. [2]
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz. The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
The Manatee River is a 36-mile-long (58 km) [1] river in Manatee County, Florida. [2] The river forms in the northeastern corner of Manatee County and flows into the Gulf of Mexico at the southern edge of Tampa Bay. Wildlife in and around the river includes alligators, herons, manatees, dolphins, and fish such as bass, bluegill, catfish, and gar.
The Manatee River flows into the lake at the eastern end, then continues to the west, where it flows into Tampa Bay. Lake Manatee is a major source of water for Bradenton and other cities in Manatee County, providing 32 million US gallons (120,000,000 L; 27,000,000 imp gal) per day. Lake Manatee State Park is located on the south shore of the lake.
Prior to the 1945 Florida State Road renumbering, SR 683 south of the Manatee River was SR 356 and it was SR 310 north of the river. [15] US 301 was extended south from Tampa to Sarasota in the early 1950s. US 301 entered Bradenton concurrently with US 41 over the Manatee River on the original Green Bridge. US 301 then split off from US 41 in ...
Bradenton (/ ˈ b r eɪ d ən t ən / BRAY-dən-tən) is a city in and the county seat [8] of Manatee County, Florida, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city's population is 55,698, up from 49,546 at the 2010 census.
All of the other counties were created later from these two original counties. Florida became the 27th U.S. state in 1845, and its last county was created in 1925 with the formation of Gilchrist County from a segment of Alachua County. [1] Florida's counties are subdivisions of the state government.
SeaPort Manatee is a county-owned deepwater seaport located in the eastern Gulf of Mexico at the entrance to Tampa Bay in northern Manatee County, Florida.It is one of Florida's largest deepwater seaports and also regarded as the closest U.S. deepwater seaport to the Panama Canal.