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Golden Beach, Florida

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Miami Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33160. It lies near Central Island. The Survey maps it on the North Miami OE E quadrangle. 961 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Golden Beach within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Golden Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Golden Beach, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Golden Beach grew from 919 to 961 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
2010919
2020961+42 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Golden Beach between 1992 and 2018, burning about 20 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 maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA (13)
24 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA
15 March 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 February 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFIU (13)
28 February 1999Debris and open burning5.0 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Golden Beach: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hollywood Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Big Cypress PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Main QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Monarch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Snake Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golden Beach in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 tornado, 2 waterspout, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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
August 2015LightningGolden Beach1 killed, 2 hurtOne person killed and 2 injured by lightning strike near a group of men sheltering under tree in park in Northeast Miami-Dade County. Exact location and time estimated.
May 2013LightningGolden Beach2 hurtTwo persons, a 40-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman, were struck by lightning at Aventura Mall close to 10 PM EDT. Both were hospitalized and were released the following day.
June 2012Tornado (EF0)Golden Beach$10,000The Golden Beach Police Department reported a waterspout moving onshore at the 400 block of Ocean Boulevard and quickly moving north along the beach side of Ocean Boulevard to the Broward County line. Path was approximately 0.5 miles. Beach chairs were tossed about 30 feet in the air, damage to trees and a hut in the 400-500 block of Ocean Boulevard. Most damage occurred at 625 Ocean Boulevard where doors and a large metal gate were blown down and twisted, along with tree branches snapped.
September 2025FloodGolden Beach$5,000Social media videos of significant street flooding near Senator Gwen Margolis Park in Sunny Isles Beach, law enforcement is on-scene assisting a stalled car.
October 2019FloodGolden Beach$2,000Photos received from public show street flooding in the Aventura Waterways area near NE 211 Street and NE 26 Avenue. A trained spotter called in with at least 4 inches of standing water on roadways, along with pictures from news media showing water as high as the hood of a car. Between 2.5 and 3 inches of rain fell in this area from thunderstorms.
June 2019FloodGolden Beach$1,000Aventura police reported the closure of NE 191st street from Biscayne blvd to NE 29th Ave due to flooding from heavy rainfall.
June 2024FloodGolden Beach-Flooding from the June 11-13 heavy rainfall and flash flooding event lingered for several days across portions of NE Miami-Dade County. This included neighborhoods across Miami Beach, Miami Shores, North Miami, North Miami Beach, and Aventura. ||Impacts and damage totals are included in the June 12th Flash Flood event entry for Miami-Dade County.
April 2023FloodGolden Beach-A local broadcast media meteorologist shared photos of flooding via social media. Heavy rainfall from a thunderstorm caused flooding and road closures in portions of NE 191st Street, from NE 29th Ave to Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura. Rainfall estimates of 2 to 3 inches in just one to two hours were received in the vicinity.
August 2020Tornado (EF0)Golden Beach-A landfalling waterspout produced from a thunderstorm moved briefly onshore in Golden Beach as a tornado for approximately 3 minutes before lifting right before the Broward County line. The tornado moved northward at approximately 10 mph along the ocean side of Ocean Boulevard/Highway A1A from the 400 block of Ocean Boulevard to |near County Line Road. Damage consisted primarily of numerous broken/snapped tree branches, including to a large Sea Grape tree, a couple of newly-planted trees toppled, several damaged/twisted metal gates, and tossed lawn/patio furniture. Some of the debris ended up in the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. Most of the damage was confined to ocean-facing homes and properties. One home had water blown in through a set of sliding glass doors due to the force of the wind.||This damage is mainly consistent with EF-0 intensity, although one or two spots could have experienced winds close to the EF-1 threshold (80-85 mph). ||Thankfully, no injuries were reported.
June 2019HailGolden Beach-A member of the public reported dime to penny size hail at Aventura Mall.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGolden Beach-Large oak tree toppled at Country Club Drive and NE 199 Street in Aventura.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGolden Beach-Reported in Aventura near Turnberry Isle Country Club.
November 2006Tornado (F0)Golden Beach-A waterspout moved onshore Golden Beach as a very weak F0 tornado. The event was captured by news media helicopters as the waterspout moved onshore. The tornado moved onto the beach about 50 yards before lifting at the dune line. No damage was observed or reported.
August 1998WaterspoutGolden Beach-Pilot reported waterspout 18nm nortwest of the Bimini islands.
June 1996WaterspoutGolden Beach-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
Sunny Isles Beach1.0 miles8
Aventura1.1 miles15
Golden Shores1.4 miles15
Sun Haven of Aventura1.5 miles15
Ojus1.9 miles15
Highland Lakes2.2 miles15
Eastern Shores2.3 miles15
Ives Estates2.9 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 Golden BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q784192The 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 283145. 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.