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History · Spring Hill

Spring Hill’s post office opened in 1851, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

More historic than 31% of U.S. towns · #154 of 638 in Florida. What drives it

Most of Spring Hill was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. 2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 9 buildings. Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 1980.

1851first post office
2on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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Quick answers

How Spring Hill began

When was Spring Hill founded?

1851

The Spring Hill post office opened in 1851, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 6,468 in 19802020 census: 113,568175 years

How historic is Spring Hill?

C

More historic than 31% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Spring Hill post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Spring Hill’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Spring Hill is more historic than 31% of U.S. towns, #154 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Spring Hill’s overall grade.
Founding era1851, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.0% of homes (±0.1) · typical FL town 0.6% · U.S. 8.4%D−National Register2 listings, 10 historic buildings, 0.8 per 10,000 residents · typical FL town 0.0 · U.S. 2.4B+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 31%
NewerOlder
Florida towns of 2,500+ (638)Ahead of 76%

Among the 400 U.S. cities of 100,000 or more, Spring Hill ranks #300 on History.

Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Spring Hill’s 0.8 sits above most of its state (71% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 10 historic buildings outnumber those of 76% of U.S. towns.

Newer cities are common at Spring Hill’s size: in the typical U.S. city of 100,000 or more, 5% of homes predate 1940.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to B. The pre-1940 share (±0.1 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Spring Hill’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Spring Hill are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 hamlets and corners are still on the map.
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Start Spring Hill’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Spring Hill’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Spring Hill had its own post office from 1851 to 1886.

Spring Hill
1851–1886
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BerkeleyWeeki Wachee AcresWeekiwachee WoodlandsWillow Sink
Gone or out of use
Brooksville Army Air Fieldmilitary
1cemetery inside Spring Hill
Florida Hills Memorial Gardens

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Spring Hill, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Spring Hill yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Spring Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hernando County, Florida, in the United States of America. The community is unincorporated. The population was 113,568 at the 2020 census, up from 98,621 at the 2010 census. Spring Hill belongs to Florida's Nature Coast region and is in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area. It is east of Hernando Beach, southwest of Brooksville, and north of Tampa.

Its first post office opened in 1851. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 98,621 to 113,568 (+15%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Spring Hill, 1851 to 1986

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1851Post officeThe Spring Hill post office opens
  3. 1886Post officeThe Spring Hill post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1947BuiltWeeki Wachee Springs is built
  6. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1981Born hereHuey Whittaker is born here
  8. 1986Born hereKyle Swanston is born here
By decade

Spring Hill, decade by decade

Today6 recent
North HCR 589;-Jct HCR 5722007North HCR 589;-Jct HCR 572Botanical gardens entrance2007Botanical gardens entranceWest End HCR 572 @ HCR 5892006West End HCR 572 @ HCR 589Stop Ahead Symbol Sign (with Words)2006Stop Ahead Symbol Sign (with Words)Begin Eastbound HCR 5722006Begin Eastbound HCR 572FLMap-doton-SpringHill2004FLMap-doton-SpringHill
On the map

Spring Hill on the map, 1954 to 1988

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Spring Hill. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Spring Hill on the 1954 USGS mapSpring Hill on the 1988 USGS map1954Port Richey NE sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Spring Hill.

On the National Register

2 listings protect 10 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
10
each building in a district counts
first listed
2020
Weeki Wachee Springs
Weeki Wachee Springs, built 1947Sinclair Service Station
BuildingsDistricts
Weeki Wachee SpringsBuilt 1947
All 2 listings
Sinclair Service StationBuilding · listed 2020

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Spring Hill, census by census

020,00040,00060,00080,000100,000120,000198020002020113,568

Grew from 6,468 people in 1980 to 113,568 in 2020, more than tenfold.

5 censuses, 1980–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Spring Hill’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Spring Hill

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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H
Huey WhittakerAmerican football player · b. 1981
K
Kyle SwanstonBasketball player · b. 1986
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Timber PinesIts storyDSouth BrooksvilleIts storyDMasaryktownIts storyDHigh PointIts storyDShady HillsIts storyDBrookridgeIts storyD

Questions about Spring Hill’s history

What year was Spring Hill founded?

The Spring Hill post office opened in 1851, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Spring Hill rank for history?

Spring Hill is more historic than 31% of U.S. towns, #154 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in Spring Hill?

Two places: the Weeki Wachee Springs (listed 2020) and the Sinclair Service Station (2020).

How old are the homes in Spring Hill?

0.0% of Spring Hill’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1993.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.