Memphis is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The population was 9,024 as of the 2020 census, up from 7,848 in 2010. It is portion of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The community can relish its roots incite to the 1880s, when it was planned as an 80-acre subdivision, adjacent to the city of Palmetto. Tennessee-born Robert Willis (1855-1933) originally owned the land, but eventually it was sold to I.E. Barwick (1854-1924) who subdivided it. The community’s established borders going on for lie on the west side of 16th Avenue East and just on the west side of U.S. 41, and together with 17th and 25th Streets East. An 1897 Manatee County manual mentions a handful of establishments, from a clothing heap to a box mill and a bakery then below construction.

Over time, the Place eventually became a predominantly African American community in the segregation era. The Old Memphis cemetery is the resting place of higher than 600 individuals. Many of the graves are of these into the future African American settlers, some of whom were freed slaves. The cemetery lies north of the community and was closed by the 1970s. Early residents included the Reverend Daniel and Isabel Baity. Reverend Baity became the first minister of the first African American church in Sarasota. The identity of the close-knit community was interrupted in imitation of the construction of U.S. 41 in the 1960s. In more recent years, the outmoded cemetery fell into disrepair and was cleaned up upon several occasions. An historical marker was erected in 2013 at the approach of the Old Memphis cemetery.

Memphis is located in northern Manatee County at 27°32′23″N 82°33′47″W / 27.53972°N 82.56306°W / 27.53972; -82.56306 (27.539798, -82.562966). It is bordered to the south and west by the city of Palmetto and to the northwest by Terra Ceia Bay, an arm of Tampa Bay.