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English: This is a locator map showing Sarasota County in Florida. For more information, ... The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz.
The route came into existence in the 1920s when the route's first bridge to Manasota Key was built. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers convinced Sarasota County to build the first bridge since they were developing the north end of Manasota Key. [35] The route was designated SR 774 after the 1945 Florida state road renumbering. [7]
SR 780 begins at an intersection with US 301/SR 683 in Sarasota, heading east on Fruitville Road, a four to six-lane divided highway, continuing onto County Road 780.West of US 301, Fruitville Road continues as an unnumbered four-lane divided highway under city control to an intersection with US 41/SR 45 in Downtown Sarasota.
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. The county includes barriers islands with beaches and beach ...
The John Ringling Causeway carries SR 789 over 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 named after John Ringling, one of the founders of the Ringling Brothers Circus and resident of the Sarasota area.
The area known today as Sarasota appeared on a sheepskin Spanish map from 1763 with the word Zarazote over present-day Sarasota and Bradenton. [12] The origin of the name is disputed, with some claiming that it is based on conquistador Hernando de Soto's daughter Sara, and others claiming that it comes from "sara-de-cota," meaning "an area of land easily observed" in the language of the Calusa ...
State Road 758 (SR 758) and County Road 758 (CR 758) are together an 11.2-mile-long (18.0 km) state road in Sarasota, Florida, United States. It runs from Siesta Key north and east to Sarasota, where it continues east through Bee Ridge. Its eastern terminus is at Interstate 75 where it continues east as a county road with no designation. [3]
US 301 first entered Florida in 1949, terminating in Tampa. It was rerouted along the 'old US 41' route to Palmetto in 1952, bypassing Tampa, and extended in 1953 south to Sarasota. In Sarasota, US 301 initially terminated at Main Street, which carried US 41 from Washington Boulevard to downtown Sarasota at the time. [11]