Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a major city in and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is on the west coast of Florida on Tampa Bay, near the Gulf of Mexico. With an estimated population of 399,700 in 2019, Tampa is the 48th most-populous city in the U.S. The bay’s port is the largest in the state, near downtown’s Channel District.
About Tampa, Florida in brief
Tampa is a major city in and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is on the west coast of Florida on Tampa Bay, near the Gulf of Mexico. With an estimated population of 399,700 in 2019, Tampa is the 48th most-populous city in the U.S. Tampa is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The bay’s port is the largest in the state, near downtown’s Channel District. Bayshore Boulevard runs along the bay and is east of the historic Hyde Park neighborhood. The name may have come from the Calusa language or possibly, the Timucua language. Tampa Bay was labeled Bahía de Espíritu Santo in the earliest Spanish maps of Florida, but became known as B. Tampa as early as 1576. The city had a population of 335,709 at the 2010 census and an estimatedPopulation of 392,890 in 2018. As of 2018, Tampa’s annual growth rate is 1.63%. When the pioneer community living near the US Army outpost of Fort Brooke was incorporated in 1849, it was called \”Tampa Town\” and the name was shortened to simply ‘Tampa’ in 1855. People from Tampa are generally known as ‘Tampans’ or ‘Tampeños’, a term that is still sometimes used to refer to their descendants living in the area, and potentially to all residents of Tampa regardless of their ethnic background. A variant of the Weeden Island culture developed in the Tampa Bay area about 2000 years ago, with archeological evidence suggesting that residents relied on the sea for most of their resources, as a vast majority of their sites have been inhabited by sea dwellers.
A mix of Cuban, Italian, and Spanish began arriving in the late 1800s to work in the new communities of Ybor City and Tampa about 1900, and these newcomers came to be known as ‘Tampsans’ The term ‘Tampingan’ was historically seen as a potential insult, but is now seen as more common when the former term is used to describe people living in Tampa. The Greater Tampa Bay Area, has over 4 million residents and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas. The area is composed of roughly 3.1 million residents, making it the second largest metropolitan statistical area in Florida and the fourth largest in Southeastern United States, behind Washington, D. C. ; Miami; and Atlanta. The name Tampa Bay may have been used, at one time or another, for the modern Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor, but its meaning is not known. Some scholars have compared ‘tampa’ to ‘itimpi’, which means ‘close to or nearby’ in the Creek language, but the meaning of that word is also unknown. A British map of 1705 also shows B. Tampa, with ‘Carlos Bay’ for Charlotte Harbor to the south, while a 1748 British map had ‘B. del Spirito Santo’ for Tampa Bay.
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