Riverview is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.
Many of Tampa Bay's radio and television stations broadcast from an antenna farm in the Riverview area, on Boyette Road, east of town.
[4] It wasn't until the 1940s that Riverview absorbed Peru, and now claims the south side of the Alafia River.
The term "Alafia" is translated as "River of Fire" due to the phosphorus on the early riverbottom glowing at night.
The Riverview name eventually came into usage in the early 1940s by the post office to relieve just such confusion with the mail.
Some of Peru's or Riverview's settlers include the Barnes, Bourgees, Boyettes, Brandons, Buzbees, Hackneys, Hancocks, Hartleys, Mansfields, Moodys, Simmons, Scotts, Symmes, Topes, Thompsons, Whitts, and the Yeomans.
The first commercial poultry farm in Florida was established by Emmet and Myrtle Tope in Riverview in 1921.
Other neighboring communities, all unincorporated, are Brandon to the north, Palm River-Clair Mel to the northwest, Progress Village and Gibsonton to the west, Apollo Beach to the southwest, Balm to the south, and FishHawk to the east.
U.S. Route 301 runs through the western side of the CDP, parallel to I-75 and through the original settlement of Riverview at the Alafia River.
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 107,396 people, 33,082 households, and 24,057 families residing in the CDP.