North Port
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city in Sarasota County, Florida
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Florida
- County
- Sarasota
- Incorporated city of north port charlott
- June 18, 1959 ( 1959-06-18 )
- Type
- Commission-Manager
- City
- 104.21 sq mi (269.91 km )
- Land
- 99.38 sq mi (257.39 km )
- Water
- 4.83 sq mi (12.52 km ) 4.40%
- Elevation
- 16 ft (4.9 m)
- Density
- 752.6/sq mi (290.58/km )
- Urban port charlotte north port fl
- 199,998 (US: 194th )
- Urban density
- 1,484.8/sq mi (573.3/km )
- Metro north port sarasota bradenton fl m
- 859,760 (US: 70th )
- Csa north port sarasota fl csa
- 1,089,011 (US: 56th )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 34286-34291, 34293
- Fips code
- 12-49675
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- North Port
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Sarasota County
- Population
- 74793
- Area
- 269.767743
- Elevation
- 3
- Official website
- www.cityofnorthport.com
- Image
- North Port High School Entrance.jpg
- Households
- 25592
- Dialing code
- 941
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- postal code
- 34291
- Commons category
- North Port, Florida
- inception
- 1959-01-01
- native label
- North Port
- topic's main category
- Category:North Port, Florida
- P8168
- differential
- water as percent of area
- 4.3988
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton
- per capita income
- 34514
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Encyclopedic overview
North Port is a city in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 74,793 at the 2020 census. It is a principal city in the Sarasota metropolitan area.
It was originally developed by General Development Corporation (GDC) as the northern Sarasota County portion of its Port Charlotte development, the other portion located in the adjacent Charlotte County. GDC dubbed the city, "North Port Charlotte", and it was incorporated under that name through a special act of the Florida Legislature on June 18, 1959. By referendum in 1974, the city's residents approved a change to its name as "North Port", dropping "Charlotte" from its name to proclaim the city as a separate identity. It is home to the Little Salt Spring, an archaeological and paleontological site owned by the University of Miami.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “North Port” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.