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Hialeah Estates, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Hialeah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33012. The Survey maps it on the Hialeah quadrangle.

Hialeah Estates 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 Hialeah Estates, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hialeah Estates, 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hialeah Estates between 1992 and 2018, burning about 200 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 maintenance11
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1

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
31 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDIE HARD FIRE
14 May 2009Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEDLEY FIRE
12 May 2002Equipment and vehicle use35 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 May 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2000Misuse of fire by a minor4.0 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

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hialeah Estates: 9 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 10 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
21st Century Rock and Fill - Number 11Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Vulcan Materials - Medley QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Black Velvet Top SoilStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dade Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
General Fill Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lehigh LakesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lsf Pennsuco AggregatesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Medley MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Medley PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Medley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Hialeah0.7 miles14
Palm Springs1.0 miles14
Holiday Acres1.2 miles14
Hialeah Gardens1.8 miles14
Palm Springs Estates1.9 miles15
Medley2.2 miles14
Sun-Tan Village2.3 miles14
Miami Springs2.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122553052The 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 283933. 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.