| Clair-Mel City, Florida | |
|---|---|
| Unincorporated community | |
  Clair-Mel City  Clair-Mel City | |
| Coordinates: 27°56′0″N82°22′42″W / 27.93333°N 82.37833°W Coordinates: 27°56′0″N82°22′42″W / 27.93333°N 82.37833°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Florida |
| County | Hillsborough |
| Area | |
| • Land | 0.64 sq mi (1.66 km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 33619 |
| Area code(s) | 813 |
| GNIS feature ID | 301140 |
Clair-Mel City (Clair Mel) is an unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The community is combined with Palm River to form the census-designated place of Palm River-Clair Mel.
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Hillsborough County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. In the 2010 census, the population was 1,229,226, making it the fourth-most populous county in Florida and the most populous county outside the Miami Metropolitan Area. A 2017 estimate has the population of Hillsborough County at 1,408,566 people, which itself is greater than the populations of 10 states according to their 2017 population estimates. Its county seat and largest city is Tampa.
Florida is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U.S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area. Tallahassee is the state's capital.
