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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.

Feather Sound within Pinellas 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 Feather Sound, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Feather Sound, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Feather 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,420
20203,607+187 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

33 since 1992

Regional 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 use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
9 September 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service52 NORTH GATE
4 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 1994Natural85 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2000Smoking2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013LightningFeather Sound$30,000Florida State watch office reported a lightning strike to an apartment complex started a fire near 4th Street North and 112 Avenue Northeast.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindFeather Sound$10,000Wind was reported to have knocked down power poles and snapping 3-inch tree limbs.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindFeather Sound$5,000An 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 2011Thunderstorm WindFeather Sound$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds overturned a tractor trailer onto two cars on Interstate 275 Howard Frankland Bridge near the 4th Street exit.
November 2020FloodFeather 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 2013Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Pinellas 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
High Point2.6 miles20
Highpoint3.0 miles20
South Highpoint3.0 miles20
Gandy3.6 miles20
Four Corners3.9 miles20
Rio Vista4.2 miles18
Bayview4.5 miles20
Pinellas Park5.1 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 Feather SoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2321660The 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.