Editing Hillsborough County, Florida (section)

==History==
{{Main|History of Tampa, Florida}}
[[File:Hillsborough County Courthouse, Tampa, FL.jpg|thumb|right|Hillsborough County Courthouse, {{Circa|1891}}]]
[[File:Courthouse & Confederate Memorial-Hillsborough County, Florida.jpg|thumb|Hillsborough County Courthouse and Confederate Monument in Tampa]]

Hillsborough County was created on January 25, 1834, from [[Alachua County, Florida|Alachua]] and [[Monroe County, Florida|Monroe]] Counties,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skcensus.com/census/fl/hillsborough.html|title=Hillsborough County Census|work=skcensus.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626064456/http://www.skcensus.com/census/fl/hillsborough.html|archive-date=June 26, 2006}}</ref> during the [[Florida Territory|U.S. territorial]] period (1822–1845). The new county was named for [[Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire|Wills Hill]], the [[Marquess of Downshire|Earl of Hillsborough]], who served as [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[Secretary of State for the Colonies]] from 1768 to 1772.<ref>{{cite book|title=Publications of the Florida Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA31|year=1908|publisher=Florida Historical Society|page=31}}</ref> The County was created through efforts by Augustus Steele.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IjznX3uqrAoC&q=augustus+steele&pg=PA124|title=Hillsborough River Guidebook|last=McCarthy|first=Kevin|date=January 1, 2011|publisher=Pineapple Press Inc|isbn=9781561644872|language=en}}</ref>

The county's 1834 area was much larger and included eight other present-day counties: [[Charlotte County, Florida|Charlotte County]], [[DeSoto County, Florida|DeSoto]], [[Hardee County, Florida|Hardee]], [[Manatee County, Florida|Manatee]], [[Pasco County, Florida|Pasco]], [[Pinellas County, Florida|Pinellas]], [[Polk County, Florida|Polk]], and [[Sarasota County, Florida|Sarasota]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/county/hillsbor/hillsbor.htm|title=Exploring Florida Hillsborough County Maps|author=Florida Center for Instructional Technology|work=usf.edu}}</ref>

The last significant change in Hillsborough County's borders was the separation of its western section to create Pinellas County in 1911.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

On New Year's Day in 1914, the [[St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line]] initiated the first scheduled commercial airline service in the world, from St. Petersburg to Tampa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/16657-worlds-first-commercial-airline-the-greatest-moments-in-flight.html|title=World's First Commercial Airline – The Greatest Moments in Flight|work=Space.com|date=May 22, 2018}}</ref>