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Tarpon Springs, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tarpon Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34689. The Survey maps it on the Tarpon Springs quadrangle. 25,117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Tarpon Springs within Pinellas County

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tarpon Springs, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Tarpon Springs, surveyed 1943

On record in Tarpon Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 15 shown

Every listing in Pinellas County

Population over time

2 figures

Tarpon Springs grew from 23,484 to 25,117 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
201023,484
202025,117+1,633 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Tarpon Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 545 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 22 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
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
1 September 1999Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1997Natural28 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRUSHMORE (51)
4 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/DOVE/0766
9 June 2006Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresFlorida Forest Service52 NORTH ANCLOTE
8 June 2014Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARINER POINT (52)
25 June 2010Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/KEY VISTA FIRE/0723

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarpon Springs in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 3 hail, 2 flood. 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
August 2013LightningTarpon Springs1 hurtA 40 year old female was injured by a lightning strike.
August 2018LightningTarpon Springs$75,000Local broadcast media aired a story of a house fire thought to have been caused by lightning.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindTarpon Springs$50,000Strong winds damaged a house and the combination of wind and storm surge led to the evacuation of 15 people.
August 2018LightningTarpon Springs$25,000A 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 2009Heavy RainTarpon Springs$20,000Heavy rains flooded roads in Tarpon Springs. One home on the 600 block of South Grosse Avenue was damaged as debris piled up in a nearby storm drain and caused flooding of three inches of water into the home.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindTarpon Springs$5,000Screens on a pool cage were ripped and a stop sign bent by estimated thunderstorm winds of 45 knots near the corner of Westwinds Drive and Cardinal Trail in Dunedin.
August 1996FloodTarpon Springs$5,000no account filed
August 1996LightningTarpon Springs$2,500no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindTarpon Springs$500Picture on social media showed a medium-sized tree down on a road near Tarpon Springs.
January 2011HailTarpon Springs$250There were numerous reports from the broadcast media and trained spotters from Palm Harbor to Tarpon Springs of dime to quarter sized hail. A window was broken in Tarpon Springs from the hail.
April 2010HailTarpon Springs-The public reported up to quarter sized hail falling for five minutes east of Tarpon Springs.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindTarpon Springs-Trees and power lines were downed in North Tarpon Springs.
July 2008HailTarpon Springs-The public reported nickel size hail near the intersection of East Lake Road and Lansbrook Parkway in Palm Harbor.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindTarpon Springs-A wind gust of 69 mph was reported by a spotter in Fred Howard Park in Tarpon Springs.
April 1996FloodTarpon Springs-no account filed

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
Cove Springs1.8 miles17
Victor1.8 miles18
Innisbrook2.4 miles17
Lake Shore Estates3.1 miles16
Wall Springs3.2 miles17
Crystal Beach4.0 miles17
East Lake4.1 miles16
Acklocknayke (historical)4.5 miles17

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 Tarpon SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q647103The 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 292048. 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.