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Carol City, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami Gardens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33056. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle. 61,233 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Carol City 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 Carol City, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Carol City, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Carol City between 1992 and 2018, burning about 300 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
17 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFIREWORKS (6)
6 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2003Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE SILO FIRE
24 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDIE HARD FIRE
28 April 1998Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Carol City: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A.J. Capeletti - No. 3 PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Broward Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dade Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carol City in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
October 2003Tornado (F0)Carol City$20,000A squall line moved through southeast Florida and spawned a brief tornado near the intersection of Red Road and Honey Hill Road. The roof of a mobile home was torn off, fences were downed and a few trees were uprooted.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCarol City-Wind gust measured at St. Thomas University mesonet station. Several tree limbs blown down and a small tree was uprooted.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCarol City-Trees down near NW 42 Ave and NW 184 ST. Report relayed by CBS-4.
May 2006HailCarol City-Reported near NW 7 Ave and NW 186 St.
May 2006HailCarol City-Penny to quarter size hail reported near Miami Gardens Drive.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCarol City-A tree was blown down near 52nd Avenue.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCarol City-Tree down at Krome Ave and Okeechobee Rd.

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
Miami Gardens0.1 miles15
Scott Lake0.7 miles15
Bunche Park1.5 miles15
Lake Lucerne1.7 miles15
Norland1.9 miles15
Lakewood Estates2.0 miles15
Andover Golf Estates2.6 miles15
Mitchell Lake Estates2.6 miles15

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 Carol CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1012122The 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 305051. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.