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The Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System has a collection of more than 20,000 of their photos at the John F. Germany Library in downtown Tampa. [2] The University of South Florida also has a digital collection of their photographs and has made 859 available online. [3]
Tampa Bay, like other parts of Florida, is extremely vulnerable to sea level rise caused by climate change. [18] The sea level has risen 8 inches (200 mm) since 1946. [18] Tampa Bay is also one of the areas in the US most at risk when hurricanes arrive because of its location, growing population, and the geography of the bay.
A 1748 British map had "B. del Spirito Santo" for Tampa Bay and "Carlos Bay" to the south. A Spanish map of 1757 renamed Tampa Bay as "San Fernando". As late as 1774, Bernard Romans called Tampa Bay "Bay of Espiritu Santo", with "Tampa Bay" restricted to the Northwest arm, what is now Old Tampa Bay, and the northeast arm named "Hillsborough Bay".
The channel beneath the main span of the Skyway allows access to Port Tampa Bay, Port Tampa, the Port of St. Petersburg, and SeaPort Manatee, making it one of the busiest shipping lanes in the United States. Owing to the 1980 disaster, the current bridge incorporates numerous safety features to protect the structure from ship collisions.
The Tampa Bay hurricane of 1921 (also known as the 1921 Tarpon Springs hurricane) was a destructive and deadly major hurricane which made landfall in the Tampa Bay area of Florida in late October 1921, becoming the first to do so there since the hurricane of 1848.
The Tampa Bay area is a major metropolitan area surrounding Tampa Bay on the Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States. It includes the main cities of Tampa , St. Petersburg , and Clearwater . It is the 17th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with a population of 3,175,275 as of the 2020 U.S. census .
Hurricane Milton made landfall in Siesta Key around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 9 as a Category 3 storm and brought storm surge and floods to much of Florida's southwest coast, but not to Tampa Bay.
HABS No. FL-270, "Ybor Cigar Factory, 1916 North Fourteenth Street, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL", 32 photos, 3 color transparencies, 13 measured drawings, 24 data pages, 4 photo caption pages HABS No. FL-271, " Cherokee Club, 1318 Ninth Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL ", 12 photos, 7 measured drawings, 12 data pages, 1 photo caption page