Tampa

Then

1. 1500s

   Spanish explorers meet the Tocobaga, whose main town stands at the north end of Old Tampa Bay.

2. 1824

   Fort Brooke is built in January at the mouth of the Hillsborough River.

3. 1849

   The Village of Tampa incorporates on January 18.

4. 1883

   Henry Plant's South Florida Railroad reaches Tampa.

5. 1886

   Vicente Martinez Ybor's factories roll their first cigars in Ybor City. At the 1929 peak, workers hand-roll over 500 million cigars.

6. 1904

   Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla stages its first pirate “invasion.”

Now

On the water

From NOAA's predictions for Hillsborough River Entrance, Tampa, FL over the next 362 days. Heights are in feet above mean lower low water (MLLW).

Pattern

Two highs and two lows a day, one noticeably bigger than the other

Typical daily range

2.5 ft

Biggest swing

3.7 ft on Nov 26

Smallest swing

1.6 ft on Dec 17

Highest high

3.3 ft, Oct 29 at 3:58 AM

Lowest low

−0.7 ft, Jan 21 at 8:29 AM

31 tide stations around Tampa

• Hillsborough River Entrance, Tampain town
• West Tampa, Hillsborough River0.9 mi
• Twenty-Second Street Causeway1.8 mi
• Tampa, Hooker Point, Hillsborough Bay2.4 mi
• East Bay, Tampa Bay2.9 mi
• Davis Island, Hillsborough Bay2.9 mi
• McKay Bay Entrance3.2 mi
• Palm River Entrance3.4 mi
• Pendola Point, Hillsborough Bay4.1 mi
• Ballast Point4.4 mi