Temple Terrace, Florida

Temple Terrace, Florida
City
City of Temple Terrace
Gazebo at Woodmont Park
Nickname:  "The Terrace"
Motto(s):  "Amazing City, Since 1925" "Tree City USA"
Location in Hillsborough County and the U.S. state of Florida
Coordinates: 28°02′07″N 82°23′21″W / 28.03528°N 82.38917°W / 28.03528; -82.38917
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Hillsborough
City	Temple Terrace
Founded	1920
Incorporated	May 28, 1925
Government
• Type	Council-Manager
• Mayor	Andy Ross
• Vice Mayor	Meredith Abel
• Council Members	James Chambers, Alison M. Fernandez, and Gil Schisler
• City Manager	Carlos P. Baía
• City Clerk	Cheryl Mooney
Area [1]
• Total	7.77 sq mi (20.13 km2)
• Land	7.47 sq mi (19.36 km2)
• Water	0.30 sq mi (0.77 km2)
Elevation	59 ft (18 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	26,690
• Density	3,570.57/sq mi (1,378.57/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	33617, 33637, (33687 P.O. Box)
Area code	813
FIPS code	12-71400[2]
GNIS feature ID	0292103[3]
Website	www.templeterrace.com

Temple Terrace is a city in northeastern Hillsborough County, Florida, United States, adjacent to Tampa. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 26,690. It is the third and smallest incorporated municipality in Hillsborough County, after Tampa and Plant City. Incorporated in 1925, the community is known for its rolling landscape, bucolic Hillsborough River views, and sand live oak trees; it is a Tree City USA. Originally planned in the 1920s as a Mediterranean-Revival golf course community, it is one of the first such communities in the United States. It is part of the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area, more commonly known as the Tampa Bay area.

Temple Terrace was named for the then-new hybrid, the Temple orange also called the tangor. It is a cross between the mandarin orange—also called the tangerine—and the common sweet orange; it was named after Florida-born William Chase Temple, one-time owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, founder of the Temple Cup, and first president of the Florida Citrus Exchange. Temple Terrace was the first place in the United States where the new Temple orange was grown in large quantities. The "terrace" portion of the name refers to the terraced terrain of the area by the river where the city was founded. One of the original houses also had a terraced yard with a lawn sloping, in tiers, toward the river.