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.
Then and now
1921 to 1998The 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.


Compare 1921 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresApollo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 14,055 | |
| 2020 | 26,002 | +11,947 (+85%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Gadsden Point quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Gadsden Point quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS Gibsonton quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1998 USGS Gibsonton quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
116 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 33 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 2ND STREET NE (29) |
| 17 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | 29 ROCKLEDGE 2 |
| 13 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 1998 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1998 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1996 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2004 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | GARDEN PARK |
| 30 August 1998 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nest Coast Shell Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Chapman Contr. - Tampa Bay Shell Pit | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Dot - Ruskin Mine | Limestone, General | Unknown | Limestone |
Storms near this place
8 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Lightning | Apollo Beach | 8 hurt, $1,000 | Eight 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 2000 | Flash Flood | Apollo Beach | $50,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apollo Beach | $10,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed a screened pool enclosure in Apollo Beach. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Apollo Beach | - | Quarter sized hail was reported by an off duty NWS meteorologist in Apollo Beach. |
| July 1999 | Waterspout | Apollo Beach | - | A pencil thin waterspout was reported four miles west northwest of Appollo Beach in Tampa Bay by WFLA-TV and Skywarn Spotters. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Apollo Beach | - | SKYWARN observer reported golf ball-size hail at Interstate 75 and Big Bend Road. |
| January 1999 | Storm Surge/Tide | Apollo Beach | - | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Storm Surge/Tide | Apollo Beach | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Ruskin | 0.9 miles | 18 | |
| McQueens Village (historical) | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Adamsville | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Ruskin | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Remlap | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Sun City Center | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Gulf City | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Gibsonton | 5.7 miles | 18 |
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 Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q619101 | The 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.










