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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.

Safety Harbor 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 Safety Harbor, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Safety Harbor, surveyed 1921

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

Population over time

2 figures

Safety 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.

YearPeople Change
201016,884
202017,072+188 (+1%)

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

54 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
15 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1993Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2000Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1993Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 COCO PLUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021LightningSafety Harbor1 hurtPinellas 911 reports that lightning struck a person in Safety Harbor causing minor injuries.
July 1998Flash FloodSafety Harbor$200,000no account filed
December 2017Thunderstorm WindSafety Harbor$50,000A large oak tree fell on a house in Safety Harbor, causing significant damage to the house.
August 2022LightningSafety Harbor$25,000Hillsborough Fire Rescue reports damage to a home from a fire caused by a lightning strike. No injuries reported.
July 2013Tornado (EF0)Safety Harbor$10,000A 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 2008LightningSafety Harbor$500Lightning hit the railroad crossing at State Road 590 and McMullen Booth Road, causing the crossing's arms to lock in the down position.
September 2010Funnel CloudSafety 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 1999Thunderstorm WindSafety Harbor-Thunderstorm winds gusts of 60 mph were estimated by Bay News Nine Cable.

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
Dellwood1.0 miles20
Bayview2.3 miles20
Bridgeport2.5 miles16
Coachman2.5 miles20
Mecca3.3 miles16
Oldsmar3.3 miles16
Harbor Palms3.6 miles16
Dunedin4.6 miles17

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 HarborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952992The 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.