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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.

Seminole within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Seminole, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Seminole, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Seminole 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.

YearPeople Change
201017,233
202019,364+2,131 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

12 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2015Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEMINOLE (52)
13 July 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service52 SEMINOLE PARK
22 April 1998Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 102ND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2018Tornado (EF1)Seminole1 hurt, $300,000Widespread 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 2005LightningSeminole1 hurtLightning 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 1999LightningSeminole1 hurtLightning struck and caused facial injury to a teenage male standing alongside an automobile in Seminole.
September 2006LightningSeminole$380,000Lightning started a fire that consumed 70 percent of a home on the 13800 block of Oak Forest Blvd S.
August 2018LightningSeminole$50,000A 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 2003LightningSeminole$40,000A lightning strike sparked a fire that caused moderate damage to a house on Cottonwood Drive.
June 1997LightningSeminole$30,000Lightning struck, ignited and severely damaged the roof and garage of a home on Crown Drive near the Intercoastal Waterway in Seminole.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSeminole$25,000Pinellas 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 2009Thunderstorm WindSeminole$10,000One tree fell onto cars in Seminole.
August 1998FloodSeminole$10,000Heavy 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 2005LightningSeminole$3,000A 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 2015Thunderstorm WindSeminole$1,000Local broadcast media reported several downed trees around Starkey Rd. in Seminole.
July 2016LightningSeminole$500The 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 2001WaterspoutSeminole-A waterspout was reported by the Pinellas county sheriffs department.
April 1997Heavy RainSeminole-Heavy rain of six to seven inches fell in less than two hours over parts of western Pinellas county.
March 1993HailSeminole-Dime-size hail was reported by a storm spotter.

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
Oakhurst (historical)0.6 miles15
Oakhurst Shores1.1 miles15
Bay Pines1.9 miles15
Oakhurst Terrace2.0 miles15
Redington Shores2.2 miles15
North Redington Beach2.3 miles15
Redington Beach2.4 miles15
Orange Terrace2.4 miles15

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 SeminoleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155162The 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.