Apollo Beach, Florida

Apollo Beach is an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Hillsborough County, Florida, in the United States, on the shore of Tampa Bay. At the 2020 census it had a population of 26,002, up from 14,701 in 2010. It covers about 57.7 km2, of which roughly 11 percent is water, and about 89 km of canals lead from its waterfront streets to the bay. Downtown Tampa is 27 km to the north. The community began in 1923 on land owned by the Dickman family, was planned as a waterfront subdivision from the 1930s, and was later called Tampa Beach and La Vida Beach before Francis Corr, a retired Michigan businessman, and his wife Dorothy settled on the name Apollo Beach in 1958, for the sunshine. His son Thomas Corr carried the development on and donated land for parks and schools. The Big Bend Power Station is its best known landmark. The climate is humid subtropical.