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Sun City Center, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ruskin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33573. The Survey maps it on the Wimauma quadrangle. 30,952 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Sun City Center within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sun City Center, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Sun City Center, surveyed 1944

Population over time

2 figures

Sun City Center grew from 19,258 to 30,952 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
201019,258
202030,952+11,694 (+61%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Sun City Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,226 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 13 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
Natural37
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking3
Other causes1
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
5 September 2014Natural1.6 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMC GRADY RD. (29)
22 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2ND STREET NE (29)
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service29 ROCKLEDGE 2
16 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 DELIA 2
13 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 DELIA
1 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBISHOP ROAD (29)
9 August 1996Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1998Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough 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 Sun City Center: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
The Cone Corp. - Balm Road MineSandUnknownSand

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sun City Center in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindSun City Center$50,000A Tampa Electric Power representative reported that thunderstorm winds downed several large trees, branches and power lines from Sun City Center to Plant City over rural eastern and southern Hillsborough county.
July 2017LightningSun City Center$20,000Hillsborough County Fire/Rescue reported a lightning strike caused a house fire in the 1400 block of Jacobson Circle in Sun City Center.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSun City Center$10,000Two pool lanais were completely destroyed. One was lifted over a home spreading debris into the front yard and street near the corner of East View Drive and Wedge Court.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindSun City Center$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds caused minor damage to several homes and downed large tree limbs and sections of fence in the Sundance area of south Hillsborough County.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindSun City Center$5,000Gusty thunderstorm winds dropped tree limbs on power lines in the Fort Lonesome area.
September 2014Heavy RainSun City Center-A CoCoRaHS observer in Sun City Center measured 6.37 inches of rain during the 4 day period.
June 2014HailSun City Center-An amateur radio operator reported quarter size hail at his house.
September 2011Heavy RainSun City Center-A trained spotter reported minor street flooding and ditches full of water due to heavy rain.
August 2003HailSun City Center-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
Wimauma2.8 miles14
North Ruskin3.9 miles18
Ruskin4.3 miles14
Apollo Beach4.8 miles18
Balm5.6 miles16
Gulf City5.9 miles14
McQueens Village (historical)6.3 miles18
Adamsville6.9 miles18

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 Sun City CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2375873The 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 293641. 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.