Saint Petersburg, Florida
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the St. Petersburg census division. The Survey maps it on the Saint Petersburg quadrangle. 258,308 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 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 Saint Petersburg
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 1 record
Maurice and Thelma Rothman Houselisted 2013
Population over time
2 figuresSaint Petersburg grew from 244,769 to 258,308 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 | 244,769 | |
| 2020 | 258,308 | +13,539 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 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 St Petersburg quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 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 Saint Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Saint Petersburg between 1997 and 2006, burning about 113 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 52 26TH STREET |
| 9 May 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 May 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 April 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2004 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | LEALMAN |
| 3 March 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
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 Saint Petersburg: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lease No. 1788 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saint Petersburg in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 3 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death and 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 | Saint Petersburg | 1 killed | The Pinellas County Medical Examiner documented a lightning victim that passed away in hospice 26 days after the strike. The gentleman was golfing at the time of the strike. Time and location estimated as no additional information was found. |
| August 2007 | Lightning | Saint Petersburg | 1 hurt | A person was struck by lightning near the intersection of 17th Ave North and 7th St North. The person was stable and transported to the hospital. |
| August 2013 | Lightning | Saint Petersburg | $5,000 | State emergency management relayed a report of a house struck by lightning with minor damage. No injuries were reported. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Saint Petersburg | - | A trained spotter reported penny size hail in St. Petersburg. |
| August 2008 | Heavy Rain | Saint Petersburg | - | Spotters along 38th Avenue between 4th Street and 7th Street reported 4 inches of rain falling in one hour causing street flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulfport | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Pasadena | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Lakewood Estates | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Broadwater | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| South Pasadena | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Lealman | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Kenneth City | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Bahia Shores | 4.0 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 Saint Petersburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q49236 | 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 290375. 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.












