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Naranja, 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 33032. The Survey maps it on the Goulds quadrangle. 13,509 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Naranja 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 Naranja, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Naranja, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Naranja grew from 8,303 to 13,509 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
20108,303
202013,509+5,206 (+63%)

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

525 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 525 fires within 5 miles of Naranja between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,715 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 193 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/incendiarism193
Railroad operations and maintenance113
Equipment and vehicle use103
Misuse of fire by a minor38
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural14
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)
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceISLAND FIRE #2
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE ISLAND FIRE
23 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2018Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMOODY PLAINS ( 13)
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCONCRETE PILE (13)

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 Naranja: 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naranja in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNaranja$10,000Four homes at a mobile home park incurred minor damage.
March 1999Tornado (F0)Naranja$10,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNaranja$2,000An off-duty NWS employee reported quarter-inch diameter hail, downed small tree limbs and branches, and water ponding on roads near Homestead Air Reserve Base. Wind speeds estimated upon damage due to passing thunderstorm.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNaranja$1,000A trained spotter reported downed tree limbs and a damaged fence after a thunderstorm passed through the area. Wind speed estimated based upon damage.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNaranja$1,000Large tree downed at 27900 block of SW 134 Ave near Leisure City.
June 2022FloodNaranja-Street flooding was reported in Homestead as a result of heavy showers and thunderstorms in the area. Water covered the roadway up to 12 inches deep in the area of Mediterranean Blvd and SW 147 Avenue.||Rainfall estimates were in the 3 to 5 inch range.
May 2020Heavy RainNaranja-Torrential rain, with reduced visibility, began in the morning hours and caused a major accident involving a tractor-trailer on the Florida's Turnpike in South Miami-Dade County, near SW 137th Avenue, which closed down most lanes to southbound traffic. Injuries/fatalities unknown.
June 2004Funnel CloudNaranja-A SKYWARN spotter videotaped a funnel cloud.

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
Modello1.5 miles16
Princetonian Park1.5 miles16
Princeton1.6 miles16
Leisure City1.6 miles16
Silver Palm2.5 miles16
South Allapattah3.2 miles17
Silver Palm Place3.4 miles16
Redland3.6 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 NaranjaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443490The 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 287532. 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.