Port Tampa, Florida
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33616. It lies near Picnic Island. The Survey maps it on the Port Tampa quadrangle.
Then and now
1921 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Port Tampa
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Johnson-Wolff Houselisted 1974 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 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 Port Tampa quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Port Tampa quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Tampa quadrangle1:24000, 6 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
Fires near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Port Tampa between 1993 and 2016, burning about 83 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Florida Forest Service | 29 COMMERCE CMD |
| 18 May 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 45 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 November 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WALL ST (29) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Port Tampa: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Gypsum Co/ Tampa, Fla. | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Plant |
Storms near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Tampa in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rattlesnake | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| Sunset Beach | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Palma Ceia | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Port Sutton | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| West Tampa | 6.5 miles | 17 | |
| Tampa | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| McQueens Village (historical) | 7.4 miles | 18 | |
| Gibsonton | 7.7 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 289240. 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.










