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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.

Seffner within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1921 to 1999

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Seffner, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Seffner, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Seffner 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,579
20208,362+783 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

51 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance17
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 TATE
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSYDNEY DOVER (29)
7 July 1992Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 May 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Peat DepositPeat, MagnesiteOccurrence
F.E. Stearns Peat - Stearns PitPeatProducer
Azzarelli Development Corp. - Pruit Road PitSandProducer
Dot Tampa - Pruitt MineSandUnknownSand
Dot Tampa - Williams MineSandUnknownSand

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998LightningSeffner1 hurtA female was struck and injured by lightning in Seffner.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSeffner$10,000A tree fell onto a house near Lenna Avenue and Mangan Avenue in Seffner.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSeffner$5,000Hillsborough County Emergency Management reported several trees down in the city of Sefner.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSeffner$5,000The 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 2013Thunderstorm WindSeffner$2,000Hillsborough County 911 reported 2 trees down across a road north of Seffner. The event time was estimated by radar.
August 2025Tornado (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 2013Thunderstorm WindSeffner-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 2004Thunderstorm WindSeffner-Trees and power lines were down near the intersection of Kingsway and Martin Luther King Blvd.
March 2001HailSeffner-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 2002HailSeffner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough 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
Mango Hills1.2 miles16
Jolly Corner1.6 miles16
Mango1.7 miles16
Kennedy Hill1.9 miles16
Limona3.0 miles16
Dover3.1 miles13
Brandon3.2 miles16
Snows Corner3.2 miles16

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 SeffnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2150258The 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.