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North Miami, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33161. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle. 60,191 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

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

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

North Miami grew from 58,786 to 60,191 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
201058,786
202060,191+1,405 (+2%)

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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of North Miami between 1992 and 2018, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA (13)
16 April 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGOLF COURSE ( 06 )
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA
26 March 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 March 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Miami in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 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 2024Flash FloodNorth Miami$3,860,000A second round of excessive rainfall leading to flash flooding occurred over portions of NE Miami-Dade County on June 12th. An additional 8-15 inches of rain fell on top of the rain that occurred the previous day. Storm surveys after the event indicated water marks as high as 2-3 feet in Aventura on buildings and power poles, and in excess of 12 inches in North Miami. ||For both June 11th and 12th events, a total of 34 people required evacuation, mostly from vehicles stalled in deep flood waters. Damage assessments resulted in 160 structures with major damage, and 81 with minor damage across Miami-Dade County. ||A maximum 2-day rainfall total of 20 was recorded in Sunny Isles Beach, with 10-20 inches from Miami Shores and Miami Beach to North Miami and Aventura. ||Total damage estimate indicated in this event is the combined total of this event and the one from June 11th.
December 2002Flash FloodNorth Miami$50,000Up to 7 inches of rain fell along the coastal areas from Miami Beach to Fort Lauderdale. Flooding in North Miami caused minor damage to houses and businesses.
June 2005Heavy RainNorth Miami$30,000Heavy rain caused street flooding and several vehicles were stalled.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNorth Miami$10,000FP&L reported trees, power lines and a power pole blown down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindNorth Miami$2,000public reported carport damage and tree limbs down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Miami-Social media pictures and videos showed straight-line winds estimated to be around 50 knots / 58 mph as a severe thunderstorm moved through the area. Time is estimated via radar.
September 2020FloodNorth Miami-An NWS employee reported 3 of 4 lanes impassable on NE 123rd Street, between North Bayshore Drive and Sans Souci Boulevard, due to street flooding caused by rounds of showers and storms. Water to around 1 foot deep in neighboring parking lots and some side streets. Water several inches deep on portions of northbound Biscayne Boulevard after the intersection with NE 123rd Street.
November 2020Flash FloodNorth Miami-Several reports of flash flooding in Biscayne Park and North Miami were received. Roads were impassable in Biscayne Park with water entering crawlspaces and homes. Streets were also impassable at the intersection of Biscayne Boulevard and Sans Souci Boulevard in North Miami. Rain gauges in the area measured 3-4 inches of rain, most of it over the course of a couple of hours.
October 2019FloodNorth Miami-Recieved photos from and NWS employee of street flooding near corner of Biscayne Blvd and Sans Souci Blvd.
July 2007HailNorth Miami-no account filed

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
Biscayne Park0.6 miles15
Courtly Manor1.2 miles15
San Souci Estates1.6 miles15
Golden Glades1.7 miles15
Keystone Islands1.8 miles15
Miami Shores1.9 miles16
Biscayne Gardens2.0 miles15
Pinewood2.2 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 North MiamiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980428The 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 287837. 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.

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.