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Golden Glades, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33168. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle. 32,499 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Golden Glades 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 Golden Glades, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Golden Glades, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Golden Glades fell from 33,145 to 32,499 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
201033,145
202032,499-646 (-2%)

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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Golden Glades between 1992 and 2018, burning about 132 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
17 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2003Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
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
16 April 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGOLF COURSE ( 06 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golden Glades in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2003Funnel CloudGolden Glades-A pilot reported a funnel cloud 10 miles east of Bal Harbour.

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
Biscayne Gardens0.5 miles15
Mitchell Lake Estates1.5 miles15
North Miami1.7 miles15
Bunche Park2.0 miles15
Biscayne Park2.3 miles15
North Miami Beach2.5 miles15
Norland2.6 miles15
Scott Lake2.6 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 Golden GladesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1817096The 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 1867145. 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.

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.