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Miami Lakes, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hialeah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33014. The Survey maps it on the Opa-locka quadrangle. 30,467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Miami Lakes within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 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 Lakes, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Miami Lakes, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Miami Lakes grew from 29,361 to 30,467 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
201029,361
202030,467+1,106 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Miami Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,280 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 maintenance22
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
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
16 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1999Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSKYJACK ( 06 )
17 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2018Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKIWI (13)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Miami Lakes: 12 producers, 3 past producers, 2 plants. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Black Velvet Top SoilStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dade PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dade Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dade Pit No. 7Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
General Fill Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Indian Lakes PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lehigh LakesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lsf Pennsuco AggregatesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Medley MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

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
Palm Springs Estates1.8 miles15
Palm Springs2.7 miles14
Country Club2.8 miles15
Opa-locka3.1 miles15
Hialeah Gardens3.1 miles14
Royal Country3.3 miles15
Hialeah Estates3.6 miles14
Pennsuco3.8 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 LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q995006The 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 305161. 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.