Thonotosassa is
located 15 miles North East of downtown Tampa. The name of
Thonotosassa comes from the Seminole Indians meaning a source of
Flint. The road that connected Fort King in Ocala to Fort Brooke
in Tampa ran northwest of Thonotosassa allowing the area to stay
occupied by the Seminole Indians until after the second Seminole
War in 1842 where settlers first arrived. The area was further
settled after a line of the South Florida
Railroad connected Thonotosassa to Tampa. In comparison
to other towns in Tampa, Thonotosassa has stayed relatively
small. Thonotosassa’s population has almost doubled from 6091
residents in the year 2000 to 10,144 residents in the year 2007.
Extra benefits to this area include 4 County/State Parks on
Morris Bridge Road that allows hiking, biking, canoeing,
kayaking and, fishing. This area is more known for country
living although; in the beginning of the early 1980, an upscale
community named Cory Lake Isles began its development with brick
pavers’ streets giving Thonotosassa its diversity of country and
city living.
