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Apollo Beach, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ruskin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33572. The Survey maps it on the Gibsonton quadrangle. 26,002 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Apollo Beach within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Apollo Beach, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Apollo Beach, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Apollo Beach grew from 14,055 to 26,002 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201014,055
202026,002+11,947 (+85%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Apollo Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,061 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural33
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2ND STREET NE (29)
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service29 ROCKLEDGE 2
13 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1998Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1998Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1996Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2004Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGARDEN PARK
30 August 1998Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Apollo Beach: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nest Coast Shell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chapman Contr. - Tampa Bay Shell PitLimestone, GeneralProducer
Dot - Ruskin MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apollo Beach in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2001: 2 hail, 2 storm surge/tide, 1 waterspout, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 8 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001LightningApollo Beach8 hurt, $1,000Eight people were injured, while taking cover in a tent, when lightning struck a nearby tree and the tents central metal support rod, on Beer Can Island in Hillsborough Bay. An adult, holding the center metal support rod of the tent, was seriously injured from the lightning strike.
September 2000Flash FloodApollo Beach$50,000no account filed
January 1999Thunderstorm WindApollo Beach$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed a screened pool enclosure in Apollo Beach.
May 1999HailApollo Beach-Quarter sized hail was reported by an off duty NWS meteorologist in Apollo Beach.
July 1999WaterspoutApollo Beach-A pencil thin waterspout was reported four miles west northwest of Appollo Beach in Tampa Bay by WFLA-TV and Skywarn Spotters.
June 1994HailApollo Beach-SKYWARN observer reported golf ball-size hail at Interstate 75 and Big Bend Road.
January 1999Storm Surge/TideApollo Beach-no account filed
January 1998Storm Surge/TideApollo Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
North Ruskin0.9 miles18
McQueens Village (historical)1.5 miles18
Adamsville3.1 miles18
Ruskin3.8 miles14
Remlap4.3 miles18
Sun City Center4.8 miles14
Gulf City5.5 miles14
Gibsonton5.7 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Apollo BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q619101The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867110. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.