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Flagami, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33144. The Survey maps it on the Hialeah quadrangle. 50,834 people lived here at the 2010 count.

Flagami within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1950 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Flagami, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Flagami, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Flagami between 1992 and 2018, burning about 174 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
12 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 June 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2011Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNSET (13)
28 May 1994Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2000Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 May 1993Railroad operations and maintenance110 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 April 1998Debris and open burning15 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Flagami: 3 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
Oolite Rock Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Red Road Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tropical Limestone PitStone, 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
Westchester0.8 miles14
Alameda1.0 miles14
West Miami1.1 miles14
Coral Terrace1.3 miles14
Coral Way Village1.4 miles14
Fountainebleau1.8 miles14
Town Park Estates1.9 miles14
Ludlam2.1 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 FlagamiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2749961The 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 282540. 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.