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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.
Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Sarasota is a principal city of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the 2020 U.S. census, Sarasota had a population of 54,842, [10] up from 51,917 at the 2010 census.
The District encompasses approximately 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) in all or part of 16 counties in west-central Florida including Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lake, Levy, Manatee, Marion, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, and Sumter counties, serving a population of more than 5.5 million people.
This radar image of Major Hurricane Milton was captured just before landfall on Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, 2024. Since the eye is coming south of Tampa Bay, communities will be spared the worst ...
It can store 15.5 billion US gallons (59,000,000 m 3) of water, enough to provide about one quarter of its service area's drinking water for six months. This eases demand on well water from the Floridan Aquifer. The surrounding 5,200-acre (21 km 2) tract of land in Hillsborough County is designated as a wildlife preserve to maintain habitat. [2]
In 1955, a New York syndicate led by developer Sydney R. Newman purchased the area now known as Bayshore Gardens on the west side of U.S. 41 along the eastern shore of Sarasota Bay, just north of the Sarasota/Manatee county line, and platted an area between what was dubbed Bayshore Gardens Parkway running from U.S. 41 to 26th Street West and Sarasota Bay that would become Bayshore Gardens.
To say the local waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Sarasota Bay, along with various creeks and lakes, were bountiful is an understatement.
Rivers of Sarasota County, Florida (4 P) Pages in category "Bodies of water of Sarasota County, Florida" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.