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Bloomingdale, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Brandon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33596. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle. 22,947 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Bloomingdale within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bloomingdale, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Bloomingdale, surveyed 1955

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomingdale grew from 22,711 to 22,947 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
201022,711
202022,947+236 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Bloomingdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,175 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 TATE
8 July 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1992Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bloomingdale: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Dot Tampa - Sydney Washer MineSandUnknownSand
Ranch Rd. Grove Corporation - Ranch Road Grove 1a MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomingdale in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
September 2017FloodBloomingdale$2,000,000Heavy rains from Hurricane Irma caused the Alafia River at Lithia to rise above flood stage on the 11th, with flooding continuing through the 18th. The water level crested at 22.79 feet on the 12th, 3.79 feet above the major flooding threshold. This marks the 5th highest crest in history for the Alafia River at Lithia.||The flood waters entered several homes in near Lithia Pinecrest Road. Flood damage to homes was estimated at $2 million.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBloomingdale$5,000An off-duty NWS employee reported a large tree branch that had fallen onto a vehicle in the driveway.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindBloomingdale$2,000Media relayed image of large tree downed on Belle Timber Ave near Bloomingdale.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBloomingdale$2,000A trained spotter reported 2-3 downed oak trees along Bloomingdale Avenue. Time was estimated from radar.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBloomingdale$1,000Local TV coverage showed a large tree down near the intersection of Bloomingdale Ave. and Lithia Pincrest Rd.
July 2014LightningBloomingdale$250An NWS employee reported a lightning strike to a tree. After being struck, a large tree branch fell across a residential road.
May 2005HailBloomingdale-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
Marvina1.5 miles13
Durant3.1 miles13
Valrico3.1 miles13
Fish Hawk3.4 miles12
Pleasant Grove3.8 miles13
Brandon3.9 miles16
Lithia4.6 miles12
Limona4.9 miles16

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 BloomingdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q885388The 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 278999. 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.