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Gateway West, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Homestead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33034. The Survey maps it on the Homestead quadrangle.

Gateway West 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 Gateway West, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Gateway West, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

567 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 567 fires within 5 miles of Gateway West between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39,998 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 193 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/incendiarism193
Equipment and vehicle use148
Railroad operations and maintenance85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Natural28
Debris and open burning24
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking5
Fireworks2

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
29 September 2013Arson/incendiarism75 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNDAY MIDNIGHT FIRE ( 13 )
22 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE MORNING - (13)
17 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROUND HOUSE (13)
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCONCRETE PILE (13)
8 August 2019Natural100 acresFlorida Forest ServiceONE TWENTY FOUR (13)
6 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEMINOLE FIRE

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 Gateway West: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Card Sound PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cutler PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Florida Rock and Sand - Card SoundLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
The Redland Company, Inc. - KesgateLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

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
Gateway Estates0.2 miles16
Florida City0.7 miles16
Homestead2.1 miles16
Leisure City4.8 miles16
Modello4.9 miles16
Redland6.2 miles16
Naranja6.3 miles16
Silver Palm Place7.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122595947The 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 2078358. 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.