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Hudson is a census-designated place at the westernmost end of Pasco County, Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico, and it is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan area.

Hudson traces its founding to 1878, when Isaac W. Hudson moved his family to the uninhabited coastal brush near a large spring and a post office was established in his home; the town of Hudson was platted a few years later in 1884.

Hudson grew in the early 1900s on the Fivay Company's lumber operations, but when Fivay went out of business in 1912 the town turned back to the sea, and shrimping and fishing employed about half of its working men from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Starting in 1950, developers dug canals and inlets around Hudson Spring to create waterfront lots, and the canal-laced neighborhoods built from the 1950s onward still define Hudson's coastal landscape.

Hudson Beach, now Robert J. Strickland Memorial Park, was built in the 1960s and remains the community's main public beach on the Gulf.

Hudson had a population of 12,944 at the 2020 census spread across 6,247 households, and it leans heavily retiree - the median age was 59.7 years and 39% of residents were 65 or older.

Hudson has a humid subtropical climate shaped by its sea-level elevation on the Gulf, with mild winters averaging around 60 degrees and summers around 81 degrees.

Local students attend schools including Hudson High School and Fivay High School, named for the lumber company that once drove the town's economy.

Hudson once proclaimed itself the 'gopher racing capital of the world.'