Tarpon Springs
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County and state location
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Basic data | |
Foundation : | 1876 |
State : | United States |
State : | Florida |
County : | Pinellas County |
Coordinates : | 28 ° 9 ′ N , 82 ° 45 ′ W |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
Residents : | 23,484 (as of 2010) |
Population density : | 990.9 inhabitants per km 2 |
Area : | 43.8 km 2 (approx. 17 mi 2 ) of which 23.7 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
Height : | 7 m |
Postcodes : | 34688, 34689 |
Area code : | +1 727 |
FIPS : | 12-71150 |
GNIS ID : | 0292048 |
Website : | www.ctsfl.us |
Mayor : | Chris Alahouzos |
Tarpon Springs is a city in Pinellas County in the US state of Florida with 23,484 inhabitants (as of 2010).
geography
Tarpon Springs is located at the confluence of the Anclote River with the Gulf of Mexico on Florida's west coast. The city is about 40 km northwest of Tampa .
history
In 1876 the first settlers settled in what is now the city and in 1887 the City of Tarpon Springs was officially founded. The Orange Belt Railway, completed in 1888, once ran through Tarpon Springs from Sanford to Saint Petersburg . After several takeovers, the line was shut down when the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was founded in 1967.
The commercial breeding of bath sponges began in 1890 , which is also the reason for the high proportion of Greek-born residents: the entrepreneur John Cocoris recruited sponge divers from Greece, especially from the Dodecanese islands and Halkidiki .
In 1938 most of the sponges fell victim to disease. In 1947, an algae plague put an end to sponge farming. Today tourism is the city's most important industry.
1953, Tarpon Springs venue and location of the film The Höllenriff ( Beneath the 12-Mile Reef , directed by Robert D. Webb)
Demographic data
According to the 2010 census, the 23,484 inhabitants at that time were distributed over 12,433 households. The population density was 990.9 inh / km². 88.1% of the population identified themselves as whites , 6.4% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 1.4% as Asian Americans . 1.7% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 2.1% to several ethnic groups. 7.3% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .
In 2010 children under the age of 18 lived in 23.8% of all households and persons aged 65 or over lived in 39.0% of all households. 62.1% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring). The average household size was 2.25 people and the average family size was 2.81 people.
20.5% of the population were younger than 20 years, 18.2% were 20 to 39 years old, 29.4% were 40 to 59 years old, and 32.0% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 48 years. 48.0% of the population were male and 52.0% were female.
The median annual income was $ 44,826, with 14.3% of the population living below the poverty line.
In 2000, English was the mother tongue of 84.99% of the population, 8.87% spoke Greek and 6.14% had another mother tongue. Tarpon Springs has the highest percentage of Greek-born residents in the United States. 9.3 percent of the residents describe themselves as Greeks .
Attractions
The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places :
traffic
US Highway 19 ( SR 55 ) and Florida State Road 595 run through the city . The Tampa airport is about 30 km away.
crime
The crime rate in 2010 was 309 points (US average: 266 points) in the average range. There was one murder, four rapes, 40 robberies, 113 assaults, 146 break-ins, 473 thefts and 27 car thefts.
Personalities
- Richard Durrance (1914-2004), skier
- Billy "The Kid" Emerson (* 1925), keyboard player
- Frank Loomis (1896–1971), track and field athlete
- Anson Safford (1830-1891), politician
- Bertie Higgins (* 1944), musician
- 2 Pistols (* 1983), rapper
Web links
- The City website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gregg Turner: A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing , Mount Pleasant 2014, ISBN 978-1-439642-54-2
- ↑ Local History - TARPON SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; Retrieved November 2, 2017 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) - Filming & Production - IMDb
- ^ Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved May 12, 2013.
- ↑ Language distribution 2000 . Modern Language Association . Retrieved May 12, 2013.
- ↑ Information from ePodunk , accessed on April 10, 2009
- ↑ FLORIDA - Pinellas County. National Register of Historic Places , accessed August 10, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Tarpon-Springs-Florida.html