Safety Harbor, Florida
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Clearwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34695. It stands on Mullet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Safety Harbor quadrangle. 17,072 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 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:
On record in Safety Harbor
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 2 records
Safety Harbor SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Inglesidelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresSafety Harbor grew from 16,884 to 17,072 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 | 16,884 | |
| 2020 | 17,072 | +188 (+1%) |
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
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Safety Harbor between 1992 and 2017, burning about 472 acres in total. 21 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 1993 | Natural | 40 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 1993 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 1993 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 52 COCO PLUM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Safety Harbor in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Lightning | Safety Harbor | 1 hurt | Pinellas 911 reports that lightning struck a person in Safety Harbor causing minor injuries. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Safety Harbor | $200,000 | no account filed |
| December 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Safety Harbor | $50,000 | A large oak tree fell on a house in Safety Harbor, causing significant damage to the house. |
| August 2022 | Lightning | Safety Harbor | $25,000 | Hillsborough Fire Rescue reports damage to a home from a fire caused by a lightning strike. No injuries reported. |
| July 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Safety Harbor | $10,000 | A nearly stationary waterspout developed over the waters of Safety Harbor and was pushed onshore near the 400 block of East Shore Drive in Oldsmar. Pinellas County Sheriff's Office found damage to shingles of a home, knocked down branches, a tree, a mailbox, and snapped a guide wire. |
| June 2008 | Lightning | Safety Harbor | $500 | Lightning hit the railroad crossing at State Road 590 and McMullen Booth Road, causing the crossing's arms to lock in the down position. |
| September 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Safety Harbor | - | A funnel cloud was reported in the KTPA and KPIE observations, as well as by numerous Skywarn Spotters and the public between 653 PM and 707 PM EDT. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Safety Harbor | - | Thunderstorm winds gusts of 60 mph were estimated by Bay News Nine Cable. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dellwood | 1.0 miles | 20 | |
| Bayview | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| Bridgeport | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Coachman | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| Mecca | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Oldsmar | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Harbor Palms | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Dunedin | 4.6 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 Safety Harbor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q952992 | 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 290124. 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.












