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Leisure City, 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 33033. The Survey maps it on the Homestead quadrangle. 26,324 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Leisure City 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 Leisure City, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Leisure City, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

On record in Leisure City

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Leisure City grew from 22,152 to 26,324 between 2000 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
200022,152
201022,655+503 (+2%)
202026,324+3,669 (+16%)

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

497 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 497 fires within 5 miles of Leisure City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,482 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 160 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/incendiarism160
Equipment and vehicle use117
Railroad operations and maintenance101
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural20
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking4
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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBASE (13)
29 September 2013Arson/incendiarism75 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNDAY MIDNIGHT FIRE ( 13 )
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWESTERN (13)
23 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2018Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMOODY PLAINS ( 13)
18 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE MORNING - (13)
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCONCRETE PILE (13)
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 Leisure City: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 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
Cutler PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Florida Rock & Sand Co. (Cutler Pit Quarry)Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Naranja Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
The Redland Company, Inc. - KesgateLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leisure City in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindLeisure City$10,000Law enforcement reports of large trees down from wind gusts around SE 27th Drive in Homestead. Time estimated from radar.
May 2016FloodLeisure City$5,000AN off-duty NWS employee reported street flooding, including water halfway up driveways, in the Keys Gate development area. The nearest intersection was SW 152nd Avenue and SW 328th street. 5 to 7 inches of rain were measured at nearby sites between Noon and 430 PM.
March 2025HailLeisure City-Social media report of quarter sized hail ongoing for 15 minutes near the intersection of Campbell Drive and SW 137th Avenue in Homestead.
March 2025HailLeisure City-A member of the public in Leisure City reported hail to the size of quarter dollars covering his yard.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Leisure City-A brief tornado touched down in the Homestead area. Minor tree and property damage occurred during a path from the 15900 block of SW 296th street north to US-1 near SW 290th Street. Minor property and tree damage occurred around 8 PM EDT at a residence on SW 296th Street. Tree damage continued in the Redland Migrant Center. Finally, behind a car rental facility on US-1 there was minor aluminum damage to a carport.
May 2016HailLeisure City-An off-duty NWS employee reported dime size hail near exit 2 of the Florida Turnpike.
June 2012HailLeisure City-A member of the public reported quarter-sized hail in Leisure City near the intersection of SW 288th Street and the Florida Turnpike.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLeisure City-Trees down on median along SW 137 Ave near SW 304 ST.
April 2011Funnel CloudLeisure City-The weather observer at Homestead Air Reserve Base (KHST) reported a funnel cloud approximately 3 to 5 miles to the southwest. Movement was to the northeast along a gust front and the funnel cloud dissipated near the base.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindLeisure City-A home antenna was blown down in Homestead with the passing severe thunderstorm.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLeisure City-Unspecified wind damage near Homestead/Miami Speedway in Homestead.

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
Modello0.9 miles16
Naranja1.6 miles16
Princetonian Park2.9 miles16
Homestead3.2 miles16
Princeton3.2 miles16
Silver Palm3.9 miles16
Redland4.0 miles16
Florida City4.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Leisure CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443522The 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 285449. 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.