Rocky Creek, Florida

Rocky Creek, Florida
Rocky Creek, Florida
	Unincorporated community
	Rocky Creek Location within the state of Florida Rocky Creek Rocky Creek (the US)
	Coordinates: 28°0′15″N82°34′47″W / 28.00417°N 82.57972°W Coordinates: 28°0′15″N82°34′47″W / 28.00417°N 82.57972°W
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Hillsborough
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)

Last updated February 19, 2019

Rocky Creek is an unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. Although a separate community, it is a part of the census-designated place (CDP) of Town 'n' Country.^[1]^[2] The ZIP code for the community is 33615.

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, Florida county in Florida, United States of America

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.

Geography

Rocky Creek is located at 28° 0' 15" north, 82° 34' 47" west (28.004, -82.57972);^[3] or approximately eight miles northwest of Tampa.^[4] The elevation for the community is three feet above sea level.^[5]

Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is on the west coast of Florida on Tampa Bay, near the Gulf of Mexico, and is the largest city in the Tampa Bay Area. The bay's port is the largest in the state, near downtown's Channel District. Bayshore Boulevard runs along the bay, and is east of the historic Hyde Park neighborhood.

Elevation Height of a geographic location above a fixed reference point

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface . The term elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface.

Mean sea level (MSL) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevation may be measured. MSL is a type of vertical datum – a standardised geodetic datum – that is used, for example, as a chart datum in cartography and marine navigation, or, in aviation, as the standard sea level at which atmospheric pressure is measured to calibrate altitude and, consequently, aircraft flight levels. A common and relatively straightforward mean sea-level standard is the midpoint between a mean low and mean high tide at a particular location.

Education

The community of Rocky Creek is served by Hillsborough County Schools.

Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) is a school district that runs the public school system of Hillsborough County in west central Florida and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It is frequently referred to as the School District of Hillsborough County (SDHC).

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References

↑ Map of Rocky Creek, Town 'n' Country, Florida
↑ URBANIZED AREA OUTLINE MAP (CENSUS 2000) Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
↑ Rocky Creek Census
↑ Rocky Creek profile from Hometown Locator

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[1] Map of Rocky Creek, Town 'n' Country, Florida

[2] URBANIZED AREA OUTLINE MAP (CENSUS 2000) Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL

[GR1-3] "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.

[4] Rocky Creek Census

[5] Rocky Creek profile from Hometown Locator

v t e Municipalities and communities of Hillsborough County, Florida, United States
County seat: Tampa
Cities	Plant City Tampa Temple Terrace
CDPs	Apollo Beach Balm Bealsville, Florida Bloomingdale Brandon Carrollwood Cheval Citrus Park Dover East Lake-Orient Park Egypt Lake-Leto FishHawk Gibsonton Keystone Lake Magdalene Lutz Mango Northdale Palm River-Clair Mel Pebble Creek Progress Village Riverview Ruskin Seffner Sun City Center Thonotosassa Town 'n' Country University Valrico Westchase Wimauma
Unincorporated communities	Adamsville Alafia Antioch Bay Crest Park Boyette Carrollwood Carrollwood Village Castor Town Clair-Mel City Del Rio Durant East Lake East Tampa Egypt Lake Fort Lonesome Gulf City Hopewell Hopewell Gardens Keysville Knights Lake Fern Leto Lithia North Ruskin Nowatney Orient Park Palm River Port Sutton Rocky Creek Sun City Sweetwater Creek Sydney Turkey Creek
Indian reservation	Tampa Indian Reservation