Seminole, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Boca Ciega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33772. The Survey maps it on the Seminole quadrangle. 19,364 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1921 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 74 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 figuresSeminole grew from 17,233 to 19,364 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 | 17,233 | |
| 2020 | 19,364 | +2,131 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 15 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 Sand Key quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Bay Pines quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Bay Pines quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Seminole between 1992 and 2016, burning about 66 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2015 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SEMINOLE (52) |
| 13 July 1993 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 1993 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | 52 SEMINOLE PARK |
| 22 April 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 52 102ND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seminole in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 8 lightning, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Seminole | 1 hurt, $300,000 | Widespread damage was observed in two mobile home parks, and a condominium roof was torn off in addition to numerous downed trees and branches. One minor injury was reported in the area. |
| August 2005 | Lightning | Seminole | 1 hurt | Lightning struck a propane truck and injured a worker who was touching it at the time. The man was knocked to the ground, suffered minor burns to his left arm, was disoriented, and had a headache. |
| September 1999 | Lightning | Seminole | 1 hurt | Lightning struck and caused facial injury to a teenage male standing alongside an automobile in Seminole. |
| September 2006 | Lightning | Seminole | $380,000 | Lightning started a fire that consumed 70 percent of a home on the 13800 block of Oak Forest Blvd S. |
| August 2018 | Lightning | Seminole | $50,000 | A fire at a home was suspected to have been caused by a lightning strike. The time of the lightning strike was estimated from radar. |
| July 2003 | Lightning | Seminole | $40,000 | A lightning strike sparked a fire that caused moderate damage to a house on Cottonwood Drive. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Seminole | $30,000 | Lightning struck, ignited and severely damaged the roof and garage of a home on Crown Drive near the Intercoastal Waterway in Seminole. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seminole | $25,000 | Pinellas County Emergency Management relayed a report of widespread damage along 78th Avenue near Pinellas Park. Numerous trees were down along the street. A few homes sustained roof damage including a tree falling through a roof of one home. One home also had a porch collapse. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seminole | $10,000 | One tree fell onto cars in Seminole. |
| August 1998 | Flood | Seminole | $10,000 | Heavy rainfall of three to four inches in less than two hours caused localized flooding of streets and low lying areas from Largo to Seminole. |
| July 2005 | Lightning | Seminole | $3,000 | A lightning strike by passed a home surge protecter and entered through the cable TV system. The strike destroyed a high definition TV, a computer, a pool pump, and the phone system. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seminole | $1,000 | Local broadcast media reported several downed trees around Starkey Rd. in Seminole. |
| July 2016 | Lightning | Seminole | $500 | The city of Seminole Fire Rescue reported a power pole being struck by lightning along U.S. Hwy 19. This caused power lines to come down in the road way closing the intersection temporarily. |
| June 2001 | Waterspout | Seminole | - | A waterspout was reported by the Pinellas county sheriffs department. |
| April 1997 | Heavy Rain | Seminole | - | Heavy rain of six to seven inches fell in less than two hours over parts of western Pinellas county. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Seminole | - | Dime-size hail was reported by a storm spotter. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakhurst (historical) | 0.6 miles | 15 | |
| Oakhurst Shores | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Bay Pines | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Oakhurst Terrace | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Redington Shores | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| North Redington Beach | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Redington Beach | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Orange Terrace | 2.4 miles | 15 |
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 Seminole | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2155162 | 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 290826. 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.










