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| Name | Hillsborough |
| Alt names | Hillsboro County | source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS12030695 | | Hillsborough | source: Getty Vocabulary Program |
| Type | County |
| Coordinates | 27.917°N 82.35°W |
| Located in | Florida, United States (1834 - ) |
| See also | Alachua, Florida, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Hernando, Florida, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Manatee, Florida, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Pinellas, Florida, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Polk, Florida, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Hillsborough County is located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. In the 2020 census, the population was 1,459,762, making it the fourth-most populous county in Florida and the most populous county outside the Miami metropolitan area. A 2021 estimate has the population of Hillsborough County at 1,512,070 people with a yearly growth rate of 1.34%, which itself is greater than the populations of 12 states according to their 2019 population estimates. Its county seat and largest city is Tampa. Hillsborough County is part of the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
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Hillsborough County was created on January 25, 1834, from Alachua and Monroe Counties, during the U.S. territorial period (1822–1845). The new county was named for Wills Hill, the Earl of Hillsborough, who served as British Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1768 to 1772. The County was created through efforts by Augustus Steele.
The county's 1834 area was much larger and included eight other present-day counties: Charlotte County, DeSoto, Hardee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, and Sarasota.
The last significant change in Hillsborough County's borders was the separation of its western section to create Pinellas County in 1911.
On New Year's Day in 1914, the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line initiated the first scheduled commercial airline service in the world, from St. Petersburg to Tampa.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1834 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1837 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1840 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1845 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1846 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1846 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1875 | Birth records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1920 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1840 | 452
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| 1850 | 2,377
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| 1860 | 2,981
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| 1870 | 3,216
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| 1880 | 5,814
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| 1890 | 14,941
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| 1900 | 36,013
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| 1910 | 78,374
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| 1920 | 88,257
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| 1930 | 153,519
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| 1940 | 180,148
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| 1950 | 249,894
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| 1960 | 397,788
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| 1970 | 490,265
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| 1980 | 646,960
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| 1990 | 834,054
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Cemeteries
Cemeteries of Hillsborough County, Florida, United States
Research Tips
External links
www.hillboroughcounty.org/
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