THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southwestern Florida Flatwoods setting.
Hillsborough County has 1,022.5 square miles of land in Florida. The mapped landscape region in Hillsborough County is Southwestern Florida Flatwoods.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Hillsborough County
The atlas lists 33 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hillsborough County, including Tampa, Riverview, Keystone. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hillsborough County by land and water
The Census records 305.3 square miles of water within Hillsborough County, or 23% of its total area. That share is close to Hillsborough County’s 23%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hillsborough County has 337.9 times the land area of nearby Progress Village CDP (3.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hardee County, Manatee County, Pasco County, Pinellas County, Polk County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

