Clearwater

Clearwater, city, seat (1912) of Pinellas county, west-central Florida, U.S. It lies on Clearwater Harbor (part of the Intracoastal Waterway), just west of Tampa via the Courtney Campbell Causeway across Old Tampa Bay. Together with St. Petersburg, about 15 miles (25 km) to the southeast, these three cities form the core of one of the state’s largest metropolitan areas. Timucua, Calusa, and Apalachee peoples originally inhabited the area. The Spanish explorers Pánfilo de Narváez (1528)...