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Miami Gardens, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami Gardens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33056. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle. 111,640 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Miami Gardens 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 Miami Gardens, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Miami Gardens, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

On record in Miami Gardens

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Miami Gardens grew from 107,167 to 111,640 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
2010107,167
2020111,640+4,473 (+4%)

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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Miami Gardens between 1992 and 2018, burning about 300 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
31 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFIREWORKS (6)
6 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2003Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE SILO FIRE
24 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDIE HARD FIRE
28 April 1998Railroad operations and maintenance10 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Miami Gardens: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
A.J. Capeletti - No. 3 PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Broward Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dade Pit No. 1Stone, 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
Carol City0.1 miles15
Scott Lake0.7 miles15
Bunche Park1.5 miles15
Lake Lucerne1.6 miles15
Norland1.8 miles15
Lakewood Estates1.9 miles15
Andover Golf Estates2.5 miles15
Andover2.5 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 Miami GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q721455The 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 1989951. 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.