Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Lake Magdalene, FL

Lake Magdalene is a census-designated place in northwestern Hillsborough County, a lakeside community in the Tampa Bay area bordering Tampa to the south, Lutz to the north and Carrollwood to the southwest.

Lake Magdalene takes its name from its centerpiece, a 206-acre lake, and the community contains at least 11 named lakes - about 12% of its roughly 11.6 square miles is water.

The lake's name has two competing origin stories: it may honor Magdalena, an interpreter for a 1549 Spanish expedition, or Mary Magdalene Yates, who married into the local Parrish family in 1882.

The community's first post office arrived in 1888, when the area was still citrus groves and farmland.

The United Brethren Church - today's Lake Magdalene United Methodist Church - was founded in 1895 by the Reverend Isaac W. Bearss, whose citrus-growing family also gave Bearss Avenue its name.

Lake Magdalene counted 30,742 residents in the 2020 Census, up from 28,509 in 2010, and it had 12,263 households at the 2010 count.

The area stayed rural for a century before Tampa's suburban growth pushed north in the 1990s, nearly doubling Lake Magdalene's population from about 16,000 in 1990 to 28,755 in 2000.