Feather Sound, Florida
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the St. Petersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33762. It lies near Bunker Hill Island. The Survey maps it on the Safety Harbor quadrangle. 3,607 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6 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 figuresFeather Sound grew from 3,420 to 3,607 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 | 3,420 | |
| 2020 | 3,607 | +187 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 20 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 St Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 5 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 Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Feather Sound between 1992 and 2017, burning about 504 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 1993 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 1995 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 52 NORTH GATE |
| 4 June 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 1994 | Natural | 85 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2000 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Feather Sound in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Lightning | Feather Sound | $30,000 | Florida State watch office reported a lightning strike to an apartment complex started a fire near 4th Street North and 112 Avenue Northeast. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Feather Sound | $10,000 | Wind was reported to have knocked down power poles and snapping 3-inch tree limbs. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Feather Sound | $5,000 | An NWS employee reported strong winds knocked over power lines and damaged a car port along Gandy Boulevard in Pinellas County, associated with a down burst signature on radar. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Feather Sound | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds overturned a tractor trailer onto two cars on Interstate 275 Howard Frankland Bridge near the 4th Street exit. |
| November 2020 | Flood | Feather Sound | - | HAM Radio reported a flooded mobile home park near Gandy Blvd and Brighton Bay Blvd. Water is waist deep and residents are being rescued. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Feather Sound | - | A waterspout that developed over the Tampa Bay near the west end of the Gandy Bridge came onshore as a tornado near the Weedon Island Power Plant. The 911 Call Center reported multiple trees down, a dock pushed against a house, and a lanai damaged on 87th Avenue in Saint Petersburg. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Point | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Highpoint | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| South Highpoint | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Gandy | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Four Corners | 3.9 miles | 20 | |
| Rio Vista | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Bayview | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Pinellas Park | 5.1 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 Feather Sound | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2321660 | 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 1867139. 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.
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.












