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Madeira Beach, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Boca Ciega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33708. It lies near Little Bird Key. The Survey maps it on the Seminole quadrangle. 3,895 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Madeira Beach within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Madeira Beach, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Madeira Beach, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Madeira Beach fell from 4,263 to 3,895 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
20104,263
20203,895-368 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Madeira Beach between 1992 and 2015, burning about 24 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 July 2015Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEMINOLE (52)
14 June 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service52 SEMINOLE PARK
14 April 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 102ND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madeira Beach in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 waterspout, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 rip current. The reports record 1 death. 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
March 2005Rip CurrentMadeira Beach1 killedA 69-year-old British tourist drowned as a rip current pulled him away from his friends. They were in chest-deep water in high surf as winds gusted to 25 mph.
February 2006Flash FloodMadeira Beach$2,000,000no account filed
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Madeira Beach$50,000A NWS storm survey confirmed that a waterspout moved ashore on Madeira Beach before quickly dissipating. The tornado caused damage to a carport and an unsecured porch while also snapping trees and power lines in the area.
August 2024Tornado (EF0)Madeira Beach$25,000A supercell embedded within an outer rainband associated with Tropical Storm Debby produced a waterspout as it passed west of Treasure Island around 17:44 EST, that was captured on a nearby webcam. The waterspout continued northward, crossing the coast near Madeira Beach in Pinellas County around 17:50 EST, where residents reported minor damage to fencing and a trailer in the Boca Ciega Point community. Radar indicated the circulation weakened shortly thereafter with the tornado estimated to have dissipated around 17:53 EST southwest of Seminole. Maximum winds were estimated around 80 mph.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindMadeira Beach$25,000A SKYWARN Spotter reported roof damage and signs blowing across the road.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindMadeira Beach$20,000A wind gust estimated at 30 knots caused a portion of an old wood flat-top roof and some aluminum overhang to tear off of an old and deteriorated two story condominium. The piece of roof fell onto the wood and plastic covering over the patio area of an adjacent restaurant.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindMadeira Beach$15,000The American Legion on Madeira Beach had part of the patio roof torn off and a 5-ton air conditioning unit tipped over from an estimated wind gust of 50 knots. A telephone pole near the property was snapped.
August 2000WaterspoutMadeira Beach$10,000A waterspout, reported by the public through Bay News Nine Cable of Pinellas Park, damaged a boat docked at a pier in Madiera Beach.
July 2001WaterspoutMadeira Beach-Multiple sightings of waterspouts were reported by the media, emergency management and public offshore of Madeira Beach to Tierra Verde in southern Pinellas county.
August 1999WaterspoutMadeira Beach-The Treasure Island Police reported that a waterspout developed and dissipated over Boca Ciega Bay one mile east of Madeira Beach.

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
Mitchell Beach1.0 miles15
Redington Beach1.0 miles15
Bay Pines1.5 miles15
North Redington Beach1.8 miles15
Sunshine Beach1.8 miles15
Oakhurst Shores1.9 miles15
The Jungle2.5 miles15
Treasure Island2.5 miles15

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 Madeira BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2152319The 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 286267. 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.