ok We use cookies on our website to allow you the best possible service. More information can be found here.
Your location:
  1. World
  2. North America
  3. U.S.A.
  4. Florida
  5. Tampa

Tampa

Tampa

About Tampa

347,645 in city
2,747,272 in metro
281 km² (108 mi²)
0.914411119239 m
Located in West-Central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico Coast. Tampa was first settled in the early 1800s as Fort Brooke. Over time a town grew around the fort and took the name of Tampa after the large bay surrounding the city. It was incorporated as a city in 1855. The city grew after the arrival of the railroad and experienced a boom like the rest of Florida in the 1910s and 1920s. It was primarily a one-industry town, with cigar manufacturing and related industries that included box construction and lithography dominating the economy through the 1930s. But the city quickly diversified. Today, the city is a center for tourism as well as financial, industrial, and agriculture industries. Tampa is the third largest city in Florida and forms, with Saint Petersburg and Clearwater, the core of the state's second largest metropolitan area.

Boroughs

Ballast Point (7), Beach Park / Sunset Park (3), Downtown / CBD (124), Drew Park / West Tampa (4), Hyde Park / Palma Ceia (15), Lowry Park (1), Northeast Tampa / Rowlett Park (18), Old Seminole Heights (1), Palmetto Beach / Grant Park (2), Port Tampa / Interbay (4), Tampa Heights (3), Westshore to CBD (28), Ybor City (7)

Metro Cities

Apollo Beach, Belleair, Belleair Bluffs, Brandon, Brooksville, Carrollwood, Clearwater, Crystal Springs, Dunedin, Feather Sound, Gulfport, Indian Shores, Kenneth City, Largo, Lutz, MacDill Air Force Base, Madeira Beach, New Port Richey, North Redington Beach, Oldsmar, Palm Harbor, Pinellas Park, Plant City, Redington Shores, Ruskin, Safety Harbor, Saint Pete Beach, Seffner, South Pasadena, Spring Hill, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Tarpon Springs, Temple Terrace, Thonotosassa, Tierra Verde, Treasure Island, Trinity, Wesley Chapel, Zephyrhills

No. of Buildings

No. Current status
876 All Buildings
730
existing
8
under construction
14
planned
96
unbuilt
28
demolished

Tallest Buildings

# Building Height Year
1 100 North Tampa 579 ft 1992
2 Bank of America Plaza 577 ft 1986
3 One Tampa City Center 537 ft 1981
4 SunTrust Financial Centre 525 ft 1992
5 Element 460 ft 2009

Building types

No. Type
604 low-rise building
143 high-rise building
40 skyscraper
28 open-air structure
18 mast (pole)
8 roller coaster
8 amusement ride
7 stadium
7 church
5 mast (framework)
2 hall
2 water tower
1 mast (wired)
1 airport tower
1 observation tower
1 building with towers

Other buildings

No. Type
2 Famous buildings
22 Buildings with construction images