Sarasota is a city located in Sarasota County, Florida, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 52,715. It is the county seat of Sarasota County.6 Download high resolution version (1022x1476, 118 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1022x1476, 118 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Sarasota County is a county located in the state of Florida. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A county seat is a town which is the capital of a county. ... Sarasota County is a county located in the state of Florida. ... Shortcut: {{GR|#}} {{Cite:GR|#}} The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. ...

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium and Marie Selby Botanical Gardens are some of Sarasota's notable attractions, as well as the Ringling Museum of Art, Florida state art museum. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens ( 7 acres) are extensive botanical gardens dedicated to research and collections of epiphytes, especially orchids and bromeliads, and their canopy ecosystems. ...

Colleges in Sarasota include New College of Florida, a highly competitive public liberal arts college, the Ringling School of Art and Design, a school of art, music, and design, and the Sarasota campus of the University of South Florida. Some two-year colleges include the Sarasota County Technical Institute and the Keiser College of Sarasota. The New College of Florida is a public honors college for the state of Florida, located in Sarasota, Florida on the former Ringling Estate. ... Ringling School of Art and Design is a private university in Sarasota, Florida offering majors in art, dance and music. ... // University of South Florida The University of South Florida, or USF, is a public university located in Tampa, Florida, USA, with branch campuses in St. ...

This city is home to the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport, which also serves Bradenton, Florida. The local television affiliate is WWSB, which airs ABC programming. Sarasota is also home to Ed Smith Stadium, where the Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati's MLB team, trains in spring for the upcoming baseball season, and is also home to the minor league Sarasota Reds. Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport SRQ FAA diagram Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (SRQ/KSRQ) is located in both Sarasota, Florida (terminal) and Bradenton, Florida (airfield). ... Bradenton is a city located in Manatee County, Florida. ... Left to Right: Bob Harrigan (Chief Meteorologist), Heidi Godman (anchor), Kevin Negandhi (sports anchor), Scott Dennis (anchor) with ABC 7 logo, and also the city of Sarasota in the background. ... The ABC Circle logo, designed by Paul Rand in 1962. ... Ed Smith Stadium is a baseball field located in Sarasota, Florida. ... Cincinnati Reds National League AAA Louisville Bats AA Chattanooga Lookouts A Sarasota Reds Dayton Dragons R Billings Mustangs GCL Reds The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ... Minor leagues in the sense intended in this article are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. ... The Sarasota Reds are a minor league baseball team based in Sarasota, Florida. ...

On Septemer 11, 2001, President George W. Bush was in Sarasota when the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists. He was at Emma E. Booker Elementary school at the time. The twin towers, photographed from the west The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of seven buildings around a central plaza, near the south end of Manhattan in the downtown financial district. ...

Sarasota has also been in the spotlight from the Carlie Brucia kidnapping in 2004 and the murder of Nancy Campbell-Panitz in 2000.

Sarasota County was created in 1921. It was named for a word in the indigenous Calusa language, whose meaning may (but is not certain to) mean point of rocks. 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... The Calusa, sometimes spelled Caloosa or Calosa, were a Native American group that lived on the coast and along the inner waterways of Floridas southwest coast. ...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,878 km² (725 mi²). 1,480 km² (572 mi²) of it is land and 398 km² (154 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 21.19% water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... This article is about the unit of measure. ...