Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Hampton, FL

Hampton is a small city in Bradford County in North Florida.

Hampton was first settled in 1859 as a community called 'Crossroads,' and it was officially incorporated as the Town of Crossroads in 1870 before being renamed the Town of Hampton in 1882.

Hampton had to be reincorporated as a municipality twice — in 1893 and again in 1911 — after allowing its municipal charter to lapse, and it became the City of Hampton in 1925.

In its railroad days, Hampton stood at the junction of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, with stations for both lines.

Hampton had 432 residents at the 2020 census, living in 220 households, within about 1.05 square miles of land.

Hampton became nationally infamous as a speed trap: in the mid-1990s, the city annexed a short stretch of U.S. Highway 301 west of town purely to collect revenue from traffic tickets issued to motorists on that highway.

At the peak of the speed-trap era, Hampton had about one police officer for every 25 residents, and the city made $211,328 in 2012 from ticketing drivers on its 1,260 feet of U.S. Highway 301.

In February 2014, state auditors presented 31 violations of state law, city charter and federal tax requirements in Hampton, its mayor had been arrested for selling oxycodone, and state legislators pursued dissolving the city altogether.

Hampton was allowed to stay incorporated after it retracted the U.S. Highway 301 annexation, decommissioned its police force and accounted for its budget shortfalls.

Hampton Elementary School is the only public school located within the city limits, and Hampton is served by the Bradford County School District.