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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.
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 ...
In the lower Florida Keys Bird Key: 1.2 square miles (3.1 km 2) Sarasota: Barrier island Bird Key: Miami-Dade in Biscayne Bay Biscayne Island: Miami-Dade Artificial island in the Venetian Island in Biscayne Bay Black Hammock Island: Duval In a marsh Blount Island: 2,000 acres (810 ha) Duval In the St. Johns River: Boca Chica Key: Monroe In the ...
Waters and Elsa Burrows Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Osprey, Florida south of Sarasota in Sarasota County. It includes the Bay Preserve at Osprey on Little Sarasota Bay. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 2012. [1] The property was next to one owned by Bertha Palmer.
Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, about five miles west of Sarasota, as a Category 3 hurricane Wednesday night, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, the National Hurricane Center ...
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 developer, Walter V. Coleman, and his family came to Sarasota in 1923 from Detroit via Miami at the beginning of Florida land boom. After he became a successful Realtor – he had 26 agents ...
12306 46th Ave. W., Cortez; 941-794-1243; starfishcompany.com An Old Florida gem located on north Sarasota Bay in the commercial fishing village of Cortez, Star Fish Company places diners at ...