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Cutler, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kendall-Palmetto Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33157. It lies near Chicken Key. The Survey maps it on the Perrine quadrangle. 17,390 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Cutler within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1949 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cutler, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cutler, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

On record in Cutler

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Cutler between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,574 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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
Railroad operations and maintenance37
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use23
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
4 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2017Arson/incendiarism10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLAKE BY THE BAY (13)
11 August 2004Arson/incendiarism80 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOASTIE FIRE
3 July 2011Fireworks2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service168 CORNER (13)
26 July 1999Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFIRST ( 13)
13 July 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE SCHOOL - 13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cutler: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kendall Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perrine Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Palmetto Bay0.9 miles17
East Perrine1.6 miles17
Kings Bay1.6 miles14
Rockdale1.9 miles14
Deering Bay1.9 miles14
Perrine2.4 miles17
Saga Bay2.5 miles17
Howard2.6 miles14

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 CutlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1872769The 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 281183. 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.