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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.

Saint Petersburg 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 Saint Petersburg, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Saint Petersburg, surveyed 1921

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

Population over time

2 figures

Saint 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.

YearPeople Change
2010244,769
2020258,308+13,539 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

7 since 1997

Regional 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 minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
28 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 26TH STREET
9 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use100 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 April 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 April 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2004Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEALMAN
3 March 1997Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lease No. 1788Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021LightningSaint Petersburg1 killedThe 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 2007LightningSaint Petersburg1 hurtA 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 2013LightningSaint Petersburg$5,000State emergency management relayed a report of a house struck by lightning with minor damage. No injuries were reported.
March 2018HailSaint Petersburg-A trained spotter reported penny size hail in St. Petersburg.
August 2008Heavy RainSaint Petersburg-Spotters along 38th Avenue between 4th Street and 7th Street reported 4 inches of rain falling in one hour causing street flooding.

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
Gulfport2.0 miles17
Pasadena2.8 miles18
Lakewood Estates3.0 miles17
Broadwater3.1 miles17
South Pasadena3.3 miles18
Lealman3.5 miles18
Kenneth City3.8 miles18
Bahia Shores4.0 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 Saint PetersburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q49236The 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.