THE LONGBOAT KEY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southwestern Florida Flatwoods setting.
Longboat Key town has 4.08 square miles of land in Manatee County, Sarasota County. Its Census boundary intersects Southwestern Florida Flatwoods, within Southern Coastal Plain.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Classification from the Census boundary intersection
The Census reference point falls outside the regional layer’s mapped footprint. This classification uses the actual place-boundary intersection, with Southwestern Florida Flatwoods representing its largest mapped overlap. Shorelines and dataset boundaries can differ.
One place name. 2 county geographies.
Longboat Key intersects 2 county geographies: Manatee County, Sarasota County. A Longboat Key mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Longboat Key by land and water
The Census records 11.9 square miles of water within Longboat Key, or 74.5% of its total area. It is 49.7 percentage points higher than the 24.9% recorded for Florida. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Longboat Key town has 1.2 times the land area of nearby Bayshore Gardens CDP (3.51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.