Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in Florida, a state of the United States. It has a population of about 384,959 people as of 2020.[5] Tampa is the 3rd largest city in Florida, and the 52nd largest city in the USA.
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Coordinates: 27°56′51″N 82°27′31″W / 27.94750°N 82.45861°WCoordinates: 27°56′51″N 82°27′31″W / 27.94750°N 82.45861°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Florida |
County | Hillsborough |
Settled (Fort Brooke) | 1823 |
Incorporated (Village of Tampa) | January 18, 1849 |
Incorporated (Town of Tampa) | September 10, 1853 and August 11, 1873 |
Incorporated (City of Tampa) | December 15, 1855[a] and July 15, 1887 |
Government | |
• Type | Strong Mayor–Council |
• Mayor | Jane Castor (D) |
• Legislative | Tampa City Council |
Area | |
• City | 175.83 sq mi (455.40 km2) |
• Land | 114.02 sq mi (295.30 km2) |
• Water | 61.82 sq mi (160.10 km2) 35.3% |
• Urban | 968.9 sq mi (2,509.5 km2) |
• Metro | 2,554 sq mi (6,610 km2) |
Elevation | 48 ft (14.6 m) |
Population (2020)[5] | |
• City | 384,959 |
• Estimate (2023)[5] | 403,364 |
• Rank | 49th in the US |
• Density | 3,376.4/sq mi (1,303.6/km2) |
• Urban | 2,783,045 (US: 17th) |
• Urban density | 2,872.3/sq mi (1,109.0/km2) |
• Metro | 3,175,275 (US: 18th) |
GDP | |
• Tampa (MSA) | $219.4 billion (2022) |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
ZIP codes | 33601–33626, 33629–33631, 33633–33635, 33637, 33646, 33647, 33650, 33655, 33660–33664, 33672–33675, 33677, 33679–33682, 33684–33689, 33694[9] |
FIPS code | 12-71000[10] |
GNIS feature ID | 0292005[11] |
Website | www |
Sports
Tampa is the home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Storm.
People from Tampa
- Brittany Snow (born 1986), actress
- Derek Bell (born 1968), professional baseball player
- Salha "Mama" Bobo (c. 1900 – 2001), Ybor business pioneer
- Ray Charles (1930–2004), blind blues singer, pianist
- Aaron Carter (born 1987), actor/singer
- Oba Chandler (born 1946) murderer (lived there since early 80s)
- Hulk Hogan (born 1953), actor/wrestler
Tampa, Florida Media
A surviving Ft. Brooke cannon on the University of Tampa campus
Ybor's first cigar factory 1916
Rolling cigars, 1909. Photo by Lewis Hine.
Franklin Street, looking north past the old Hillsborough County Courthouse, Tampa, 1922
MacDill Air Force Base during World War II
References
- ↑ "Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World". Nps.gov. June 28, 1999. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Alive: Ybor stumbled upon Guavaween". St Petersburg Times. October 29, 1999. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
- ↑ "John Thomas Lesley – 12th Mayor of Tampa". Archived July 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine at TampaGov. Retrieved March 22, 2010.
- ↑ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on March 18, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "QuickFacts: Tampa city, Florida". census.gov. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
- ↑ "List of 2020 Census Urban Areas". census.gov. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
- ↑ Guzzo, Paul (January 10, 2019). "Are you a Tampan, Tampanian or Tampeño?". Tampa Bay Times. https://www.tampabay.com/tampa/are-you-a-tampan-tampanian-or-tampexf1o-20190110/. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- ↑ "Total Gross Domestic Product for Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL (MSA)". fred.stlouisfed.org.
- ↑ "Look Up a Zip Code: TAMPA FL". U.S. Postal Service. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
- ↑ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Tampa city, Florida". American Factfinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 28, 2017.[dead link]
- ↑ "Tampa, Florida". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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