Seffner, Florida
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Brandon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33584. The Survey maps it on the Brandon quadrangle. 8,362 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1921 to 1999The same ground, surveyed 78 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:
Population over time
2 figuresSeffner grew from 7,579 to 8,362 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 | 7,579 | |
| 2020 | 8,362 | +783 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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 Tampa quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Mango quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Brandon 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
- 1999 USGS Brandon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
51 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Seffner between 1992 and 2019, burning about 245 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 29 TATE |
| 23 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SYDNEY DOVER (29) |
| 7 July 1992 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 June 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 May 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 May 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 May 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 27 May 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Seffner: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Peat, Magnesite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Peat Deposit | Peat, Magnesite | Occurrence | ||
| F.E. Stearns Peat - Stearns Pit | Peat | Producer | ||
| Azzarelli Development Corp. - Pruit Road Pit | Sand | Producer | ||
| Dot Tampa - Pruitt Mine | Sand | Unknown | Sand | |
| Dot Tampa - Williams Mine | Sand | Unknown | Sand |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seffner in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Lightning | Seffner | 1 hurt | A female was struck and injured by lightning in Seffner. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seffner | $10,000 | A tree fell onto a house near Lenna Avenue and Mangan Avenue in Seffner. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seffner | $5,000 | Hillsborough County Emergency Management reported several trees down in the city of Sefner. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seffner | $5,000 | The fire department reported a large tree was knocked down onto a house near Tighe Avenue and Lennar Avenue in Seffner. The damage was widely reported by the media. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seffner | $2,000 | Hillsborough County 911 reported 2 trees down across a road north of Seffner. The event time was estimated by radar. |
| August 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Seffner | - | Video submitted from public residence of a brief landspout near Apache Lane and Old Hillsborough Avenue in Seffner, lofting primarily what appeared to foliage from the surrounding area. No structural damage observed as the feature remained over open land during its brief existence. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seffner | - | A local television station relayed a report of a downed tree on Hillsborough Avenue in Seffner. The time was estimated from Doppler radar signatures. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seffner | - | Trees and power lines were down near the intersection of Kingsway and Martin Luther King Blvd. |
| March 2001 | Hail | Seffner | - | Ping pong ball to dime sized hail was reported by Skywarn Spotters, the broadcast media and the public from Brandon northeast to Plant City. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Seffner | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mango Hills | 1.2 miles | 16 | |
| Jolly Corner | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Mango | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Kennedy Hill | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Limona | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Dover | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Brandon | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Snows Corner | 3.2 miles | 16 |
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 Seffner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2150258 | 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 290820. 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.









