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Bal Harbour, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33154. It lies near Sandspur Island. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle. 3,093 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Bal Harbour within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1947 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bal Harbour, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bal Harbour, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

On record in Bal Harbour

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Bal Harbour grew from 2,513 to 3,093 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,513
20203,093+580 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bal Harbour between 1992 and 2018, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA (13)
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA
5 February 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFIU (13)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bal Harbour in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 1 waterspout, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020LightningBal Harbour$2,000An article from Local 10 News reported a house near the intersection of Bryon Ave and 92nd Street was struck by lightning from a thunderstorm that pushed across the town of Surfside in the morning. Lightning struck a tall structure on the roof, blowing up the concrete, which landed in six or seven different places and even hit his SUV, though it only caused a few scratches. Thankfully, no one was injured.
September 2021FloodBal Harbour-Broadcast media relayed a video via social media that showed flooding with water covering Harding Avenue in Surfside from a heavy thunderstorm. Rainfall measurements in the area were around 1 inch which fell in less than an hour.
May 2011Heavy RainBal Harbour-Heavy rain fell on Key Biscayne and the surrounding coastal Miami-Dade County areas flooding some roadways in Surfside near Collins Ave and 91st and on Key Biscayne. Over 5 inches fell on Key Biscayne at Bill Baggs State Park and 3.5 inches fell on Virginia Key at RSMAS.
June 1997WaterspoutBal Harbour-reported by pilot and off-duty nws personnel
August 2000Funnel CloudBal Harbour-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami-Dade County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bal Harbor Beach0.3 miles8
Bay Harbor Islands0.4 miles15
Surfside0.9 miles15
Indian Creek Village1.1 miles15
Keystone Islands1.4 miles15
San Souci Estates1.7 miles15
Interama1.9 miles15
Normandy Shores2.3 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Bal HarbourAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q804577The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 278057. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.