Carrollwood, Florida
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33618. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle. 34,352 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Then and now
1944 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1944 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresCarrollwood grew from 33,365 to 34,352 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 | 33,365 | |
| 2020 | 34,352 | +987 (+3%) |
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.
- 1944 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:31680
- 1945 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:31680
- 1949 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:25000
- 1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Carrollwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 1998 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 June 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 June 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 40 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 May 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | 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 Carrollwood: 3 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centex Real Estate Corp. - Carrolton Lakes Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Dot Tampa - Benjamin Mine | Sand | Unknown | Sand | |
| S & E Contractors, Inc. - Brown Mine | Sand | Unknown |
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrollwood in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2014: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Lightning | Carrollwood | $800,000 | A lightning strike sparked a fire at the Grande Oasis Apartments in Carrollwood. One of the buildings at 8699 Key Royal Ln was evacuated. A total of 18 of the 24 units in the building were damaged. Over 50 residents were displaced from their homes however no injuries were reported. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Carrollwood | $20,000 | A brief and weak tornado touched down across Golf Crest Circle as the result of two merging thunderstorms. Three nearly 100-foot tall pine trees were blown over, one falling on a house causing major roof damage. |
| March 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carrollwood | $15,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds tore aluminum siding off six mobile homes and blew down a 50 foot maple tree in Carrollwood. |
| February 2014 | Lightning | Carrollwood | $10,000 | Florida Department of Emergency Management relayed a report of a fire started by a lightning strike at an apartment complex. The fire caused smoke damage to 8 units of the apartment building, located near White Swan Drive and Twin Lakes Boulevard. A damage estimate of $10,000 was determined by taking a low end range of average smoke damage claims in the area. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carrollwood | $5,000 | Broadcast media reported large tree limbs down near Carrollwood. One of the branches landed on a car. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Carrollwood | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in the Carollwood area via social media. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Carrollwood | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in Carrollwood. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Carrollwood | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Carrollwood. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Carrollwood | - | The hail report was two miles south of Odessa just south of the Pasco and Hillsborough county lines. A wind gust to 48 MPH was also measured at this location. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carrollwood | - | Several trees were blown down at an apartment complex at the 5500 block of Gunn Highway. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Carrollwood | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported from several sources in the area. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carrollwood | - | Three large oak trees were down in a yard in Carrollwood. |
| September 1993 | Hail | Carrollwood | - | Nickel-size hail fell. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Carrollwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goldstein | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Mullis City | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Carrollwood Village | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Lake Magdalene | 2.0 miles | 18 | |
| North Tampa Heights | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Egypt Lake | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Sulphur Springs | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| West Park | 2.9 miles | 17 |
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 Carrollwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2010308 | 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 1867123. 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.










