Riverview Census   

Riverview's population is younger and has more married couples than the state average.

Median age is 35.0 in Riverview while in Florida it is 38.7.  (U.S. is 35.3). Doesn't "median" mean that when you are driving on Lake St. Charles Blvd., half the cars will be on your side of the median strip and half will be on the other side?

Only 10% of the population in Riverview is 65 or older while in Florida it is 17.6% (U.S. is 12.4%)  

Riverview is a family area: 

In Riverview's zip code 33569, 60% of the people are married.

By comparison, here are the marriage percentages for other areas:

State of Florida & Nation 54%

Hillsborough County 52% (interesting that the County is very close to the state and national averages)

City of Tampa 44%

Median home value in Riverview is $123,500

Lake St. Charles's Location  added 9/25

Where in the world is Lake St. Charles?  For those of us who would like to be able to convert, "LSC is behind the Kash n Karry in Riverview," into a location fit for a technical tourist, here is an estimate of the location of the big lake, Lake St. Charles:

Decimal Degrees 
27.873000 Latitude 
82.347000 Longitude 

Equivalent Coordinates in 
Degrees Minutes Seconds 
27 52 22.8000 N
82 20 49.2000 W

Lake St. Charles Elevation

LSC is in Evacuation Zone D - Yellow which is when a storm surge of 22' is expected.  Hurricane Info.

Our house’s floor slab is 26 feet above level (for yours, check your survey, many include the elevation of the floor slab). I think we are in one of the lowest areas of LSC, so everyone else’s house slab should at least be 26 feet above sea level.

Archie Creek (the creek in the conservation area behind the Lakeside section):

The 1987 USGS topographical map for the LSC area shows a 20-feet elevation for the top edge of Archie Creek.  The Archie Creek bottom must be about 16-13 feet above sea level. Archie Creek is how water flows out of LSC to west into Hillsborough Bay -- It does not flow into the Alafia River -- what a great LSC Trivia Question!

The big lake, Lake St. Charles:

Information from the Southwest Florida Water Management District shows that the top of bank elevation for Lake St Charles (the big 70 acre lake) is 23.5 feet above sea level. The seasonal/regular/design elevation of the water in the lake is about 21 feet above sea level.

Slope of land:

Lake St Charles’ land area generally slopes to the southwest. On the north side of the entire Lake St. Charles subdivision there is a contour line on the 1987 topographical map showing a ground elevation of 25 feet. Thus, the highest ground level (without the fill for the houses) was about 25 feet on the northeast side of LSC (Stratford).

Aerials and Maps

Riverview, Florida Location Map added 1-9

Riverview Street Map added 1-9

Lake St. Charles  

Map of LSC from Maporama.  added 9/25/04 

The above map is centered on the Lake St. Charles community center at 6801 Colonial Lake Drive.

Also, you can also get the latitude/longitude for your address at Maporama.  Just enter your own address.

Additional Maps Page.  Make a map of any section of LSC.  Good for when you pass out flyers.  Go to the Additional Maps Page.  The PDF files are from the Planning Commission and they have added most of the streets to help study the area.

Aerial of LSC May 13, 2002

Aerial of LSC 1999

Topographical map of LSC from the USGS 1987  

Topo map symbols  added 8/13

 

April 2002 aerials were used by the county to show zoning/land use for LSC in these PDF files--- (Lake St. Charles is a 420-acre Planned Development "PD"):  

LSC Entrance and Jamestown

North LSC

South LSC 

Riverview Area Topographical Map  added 7/25

Good for seeing the land, rivers, creeks, and general elevations of the land.  You can zoom in on any area.

MacDill and Bay   

Notice Lake St. Charles on the right edge (at about 2 o'clock) of this picture taken by an astronaut from space.  

Florida From Space  

Large, high-resolution picture Dec. 20, 2003

Another Florida from space view Feb. 17, 2002

Zoning aerials for the greater Lake St. Charles area.  PDF 

These are zoning maps for Township 30 South, Range 20 East.  Once again E-clectic Links gives you the most exciting links!  But wait, there's more:

Zoning Abbreviations PDF  

Just what is the zoning classification AR? (Agriculture Rural).  This PDF files lists all the classifications.  Once you click on the above link, then look for Article II.  Open Article II, then open Section 2.01.00 Standard Zoning Districts. Then click on Sec. 2.01.02.  Establishment of Zoning Districts, but the same list is set out below.  

Zoning Codes

Here are the Zoning Abbreviations taken from the online code July 25, 2004:

Sec. 2.01.02. Establishment of Zoning Districts

A.     Generally

The unincorporated portion of Hillsborough County shall be divided by this Code into Zoning Districts, the boundaries and designations of which shall be shown on a series of maps, covering in time the entire unincorporated area of Hillsborough County, and identified as the Official Zoning Atlas of Hillsborough County, hereafter Official Zoning Atlas.

B.     List of Zoning Districts

AM Agricultural Mining

A Agriculture

AR Agricultural Rural

AS-0.4 Agricultural, Single-Family Estate

AS-1 Agricultural, Single-Family

ASC-1 Agricultural, Single-Family Conventional

AI Agricultural Industrial

RSC-2 Residential, Single-Family Conventional

RSC-3 Residential, Single-Family Conventional

RSC-4 Residential, Single-Family Conventional

RSC-6 Residential, Single-Family Conventional

RSC-9 Residential, Single-Family Conventional

MH Residential, Single-Family Mobile Home Overlay

RDC-6 Residential, Duplex Conventional

RDC-12 Residential, Duplex Conventional

RMC-6 Residential, Multi-Family Conventional

RMC-9 Residential, Multi-Family Conventional

RMC-12 Residential, Multi-Family Conventional

RMC-16 Residential, Multi-Family Conventional

RMC-20 Residential, Multi-Family Conventional

BPO Business, Professional Office

OR Office Residential

CN Commercial, Neighborhood

CG Commercial, General

CI Commercial, Intensive

M Manufacturing

SB Show Business Overlay

SPI-HC Historic and Cultural Conservation

SPI-RVR Recreational Vehicle and Private Pleasure Craft Residential Overlay

SPI-UC-1 Special Public Interest-University Community

SPI-UC-2 Special Public Interest-University Community

SPI-UC-3 Special Public Interest-University Community

SPI-AP-1 Special Public Interest - Airport

SPI-AP-2 Special Public Interest - Airport

SPI-AP-3 Special Public Interest - Airport

SPI-AP-4 Special Public Interest - Airport

SPI-AP-5 Special Public Interest - Airport

SPI-AP-V Special Public Interest - Airport

SPI-NMD Special Public Interest - North Dale Mabry Overlay

PD Planned Development

IPD-1 Interstate Planned Development

IPD-2 Interstate Planned Development

IPD-3 Interstate Planned Development

POD Pedestrian Oriented Development

TOD Transit Oriented Development

TND Traditional Neighborhood Development

BMS Brandon Main Street

CPV Citrus Park Village

R-BPO Restricted-Business Professional Office Overlay

(Ord. No. 02-13, § 2, 8-1-02; Ord. No. 03-36, § 2, 11-12-03)

 

 

Florida Road Signs -- Part of a national web site

This site of pictures of road signs might also serve your family as a fuddy-duddy test.  Anyone who enjoys these signs as much as your webmaster does is an official fuddy-duddy! 

Florida Quick Census Facts  

From the Census Bureau.  You can get all other states here too.

Florida Maps   

Historical, county, hurricane, fire, satellite images.  

Antique Maps of Florida -- The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd.

Plunk down yer gold me mateys if ye want to own these maps.  There be pirates in them days.

Railroads  

Tampa Bay Rail Transportation Network, history and statistics. "Trains are three times more energy efficient than trucks and produce ten times less pollution" (CSX Transportation).

Current, hourly FHP traffic incidents in Hillsborough County  

Interstate Highway Construction Notices.

Find out all about construction on our local interstate highways.

Wind on Tampa Bay  

You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows, 
Just this neat little web page. 

Space launches can be seen from Lake St. Charles when the sky is clear -- which happens most often in the winter.  But we have seen them in the summer too.  Look northeast.  

Launch calendar from the Air Force 

Launch calendar from NASA

Cargil  

This site is from 1999, but is a good overview of what Cargil does at its Riverview plant.  Cargil is a major employer in the county.

Alafia River USGS Data  

Gage height, water temperature, and specific conductance [which can be an indirect measure
of the amount of pollution 
in the water].

You know, the common topics when you are chatting with neighbors, "Did you hear what the Alafia River's water temperature was today?"  "No, I haven't been able to watch the national news today."  ....  Well, now you don't have to feel like a technical-news castaway.

Here is a chart for temperature conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit :

Alafia River - Gage height and flood stage graph at Lithia 

Real-time data

Rivers -- Gage height and flood predictions for areas rivers added 8/15

Map of west central Florida.  Links to all major local river gage height graphs, real-time data

Gulf water temperatures - current & historical.  

The St. Petersburg information (closest to Riverview) was Not Available at the time this link was added, January 31, 2004

A Beginner's Guide to Water Management  

Definitions of all things related to water quality.

Hillsborough County Watershed Atlas  

Adopt a pond program 

Florida Lakewatch  

The Statewide Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program

Sinkhole Probability Map.pdf  

This map is from the Hillsborough County Planning Commission's Comprehensive Plan for Hillsborough County Conservation and Recharge at page 145.

Alafia River projects  

Chronological description of the works by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1899.

Florida shoreline from 650,000 years ago to present. 

Twenty thousand years ago, Riverview was in the middle of the state and about 120 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.

Interstate 75.  

Some of the exits along I-75.  
Info is from the FL DOT web site

This chart begins well north of Brooksville and lists the exits going south.

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