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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 ...
North of Bee Ridge Road, Beneva Road runs between Southgate and Sarasota Springs. It then intersects Webber Street and Bahia Vista Street as it continues north. Beneva Road enters Sarasota city limits right after crossing the Legacy Trail. It then intersects SR 780 (Fruitville Road), the primary east–west road through Sarasota. Beneva Road ...
English: This is a locator map showing Sarasota County in Florida. For more information, ... The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
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 one of only 20 Florida counties with its own charter, adopted in 1971. Sarasota County is governed by a five-member county commission. Each commissioner serves a four-year term and resides in and represents a single district. [15] Like most of Southwest Florida, Sarasota County has been a stronghold for the Republican Party.
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.
U.S. Route 301 (US 301) in Florida runs from the Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area northeast to the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan Area.The road is a spur of U.S. Route 1, which it intersects in Callahan.
Prior to 1945, SR 72 was designated SR 220 from the Sarasota area to Arcadia. After the 1945 Florida state road renumbering , it was designated SR 72. At this point, SR 72 entered the Sarasota area along present-day Proctor Road, then turned north along Sawyer Road, then back west along present-day Bee Ridge Road and terminated at US 41 ...