Town 'n' Country began in 1958 on a 525-acre dairy farm and became one of Tampa's first suburban communities. Its original houses are now roughly 50 to 70 years old and stand on ground with a listed elevation of only about 10 feet.
Town 'n' Country is a census-designated place in western Hillsborough County, about 12 miles northwest of downtown Tampa, with 85,951 residents in the 2020 census. Before the 1950s the area was mostly natural land and cattle farms. The LaMonte-Shimberg Corporation bought a dairy farm near Hillsborough Avenue and Memorial Highway in 1958 and, over the next twenty years, built nearly 8,000 single-family homes and townhouses across more than 2,000 acres reaching north of Waters Avenue.
The land is low and wet. The Rocky Creek section lies about three feet above sea level, and more than 8 percent of the census area is water. A bike path ties the community to the Courtney Campbell Causeway over Old Tampa Bay. Aging houses, the soil under them and the mangrove-fringed wetlands around the bay each bring a different pest.
