North Pinellas County The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. Other major towns in the county incorporated during this time were Clearwater (1891), Dunedin (1899), and Largo (1905). Available Apps / Notifications Ready Pinellas Alert Pinellas Report An Issue . See Pinellas County Voter Guide for election information. Anchored by the urban markets of Clearwater and St. Petersburg, Pinellas has the second largest base of manufacturing employment in Florida. Plant Museum, Imagine Museum, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Dunedin History Museum, and the Tampa Bay History Center. Petersburg–Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The median age was 46.3 years. More than 70 FM and AM stations compete for listenership in what is the nation's 19th largest radio market.[74]. As was the case in much of Florida, the Great Depression came early to Pinellas with the collapse of the real estate boom in 1926. St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art, National Register of Historic Places listings in Pinellas County, Florida, St. Petersburg–Clearwater International Airport, Timeline of Pinellas County, Florida history, List of tallest buildings in St. Petersburg, "Orlando passes St.Pete: City Beautiful is now Florida's fourth largest city", "Pinellas County, Florida, Park and Conservation Resources - Philippe Park", "ODET PHILIPPE - FLORIDA PIONEE - Genealogy.com", http://www.pinellascounty.org/PDF/HEObook.pdf, "Southpinellas: For Coquina Key, cycle of rum, boom and bust", "During World War II, St. Pete had its Bomb-a-Dears", "Andrew Meacham, "Mayor packed ideas, pipe tobacco in rich public life," September 15, 2010", "Tampabay: Horrific accident created an unforgettable scene", "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990", "Pinellas County, Florida - About Pinellas - Facts", http://www.pinellascounty.org/Plan/comp_plan/04natural/ch-1.pdf, http://www.pinellascounty.org/Plan/comp_plan/05coastal/ch-2.pdf, "Pinellas County Florida - Parks & Preserves", "Boyd Hill Nature Preserve - St. Petersburg, Florida", "Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay finds a home, family in the woods", http://www.weather.com/outlook/homeandgarden/home/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USFL0119, "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990", "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. North Star Academy of Pinellas County. As of 2012, proposals are currently being developed[77] by community leaders for a light rail system which would connect the regional core cities of Clearwater, St. Petersburg, and Tampa. During fiscal year 2005-06, PSTA transported 11,400,484 passengers.[79]. Both the North Beach of Fort De Soto Park (2005) and Caladesi Island (2008) have been named by Dr. Beach as America's Top Beach. [76] That right-of-way, as well as the right-of-way of several other former CSX railroad lines in the county beginning in the 1990s, was converted into a section of the Pinellas Trail. Sea turtles nest on the shores or Pinellas' barrier islands and have been threatened by development. Source: 2010 Florida Census of Population and Housing[39], U.S. Census Bureau 2010 Ethnic/Race Demographics:[40][41], In 2010, 6.5% of the population considered themselves to be of only "American" ancestry (regardless of race or ethnicity. Our goals support the local, state, and national Democratic organizations. Pinellas County (pih-NEL-ess) is located on the west central coast of the state of Florida. [8] The very next year Odet Philippe, a French Huguenot from Charleston, South Carolina became the first permanent, non-native resident of the peninsula when he established a plantation near the site of the Tocobaga village in Safety Harbor.