Editing Manasota Key, Florida (section)

==Geography==
The Manasota Key CDP is located in the northwestern corner of Charlotte County at {{coord|26|56|N|82|22|W|type:city}}.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> As noted above, the barrier island of the same name extends north well into Sarasota County. Its western edge is the [[Gulf of Mexico]], and to the east is [[Lemon Bay]], an estuary. The community of Englewood Beach occupies most of the CDP, and it is connected to the mainland by Beach Road, which crosses Lemon Bay to [[Englewood, Florida|Englewood]]. The southern end of the CDP, which includes Manasota Key, Peterson Island, and Whidden Key, is covered by [[Stump Pass Beach State Park]]. Stump Pass is a channel that connects Lemon Bay to the Gulf of Mexico and separates Manasota Key from [[Don Pedro Island]] to the south. [[Grove City, Florida|Grove City]] is located directly to the east across Lemon Bay from the south end of Manasota Key.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of {{convert|8.0|km2|disp=flip}}, of which {{convert|2.7|km2|disp=flip}} is land and {{convert|5.2|km2|disp=flip}}, or 65.97%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US1242750| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212174521/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US1242750| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Manasota Key CDP, Florida| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| accessdate=June 25, 2014}}</ref>

The extinct [[Chadwick Beach cotton mouse]] was endemic to the Englewood Beach area.