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Goulds, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Princeton-Goulds census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33170. The Survey maps it on the Goulds quadrangle. 11,446 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Goulds 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 Goulds, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Goulds, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

On record in Goulds

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Goulds grew from 10,103 to 11,446 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
201010,103
202011,446+1,343 (+13%)

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

579 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 579 fires within 5 miles of Goulds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,813 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 199 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/incendiarism199
Railroad operations and maintenance142
Equipment and vehicle use101
Misuse of fire by a minor61
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural11
Smoking6
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBASE (13)
4 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWESTERN (13)
26 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceISLAND FIRE #2
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE ISLAND FIRE
24 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 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 Goulds: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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
Florida Rock & Sand Co. (Cutler Pit Quarry)Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Eureka PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Naranja Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perrine Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pit 12Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goulds in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 1 waterspout, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
October 2011Flash FloodGoulds$100,000Severe flooding occurred over large parts of eastern metro Miami-Dade County beginning during the evening hours of October 30th and continuing well into the next day. The area of heavy rain began over southern sections of the flood area, including Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay and Key Biscayne around 830 PM EDT and spread north to the Pinecrest, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove areas around 10 PM EDT, and from city of Miami to North Bay Village shortly after midnight. Numerous roads were under deep water and reports of dozens of homes with water intrusion were received across this entire area. ||Rainfall amounts were in the 6 to 10 inch range across this area, virtually all of it falling in less than 12 hours. Highest rainfall estimates were in Coconut Grove where up to 12 inches or more may have fallen, causing water to pond to as high as 4 feet in a few areas. A Coral Gables PD official deemed this to be the most flooding he's ever seen in the area. The western half of Key Biscayne was under water.
May 2022LightningGoulds$5,000Lightning struck the roof of a home in the 22600 block of SW 109 Court in Princeton. A patch of about 75-100 barrel tiles at the tip of the roof were broken off by the lightning strike. A fire was sparked but was put out by firefighters before any additional damage could occur.
August 1996WaterspoutGoulds-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
Princeton2.2 miles16
South Allapattah2.2 miles17
Cutler Ridge2.3 miles17
Princetonian Park2.3 miles16
South Miami Heights2.4 miles16
Cutler Bay2.6 miles17
Vehlin2.6 miles16
Franjo2.7 miles17

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 GouldsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443480The 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 283239. 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.