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Princeton, 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. 39,308 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Princeton 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 Princeton, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Princeton, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Princeton grew from 22,038 to 39,308 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
201022,038
202039,308+17,270 (+78%)

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

612 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 612 fires within 5 miles of Princeton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,903 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 215 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/incendiarism215
Railroad operations and maintenance143
Equipment and vehicle use114
Misuse of fire by a minor57
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking6
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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)
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
24 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
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 Princeton: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Eureka 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Princeton in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindPrinceton$500Trees blown down and an awning torn off of a house in the Princeton area.
May 2013Funnel CloudPrinceton-Pictures were relayed by WSVN-TV of funnel clouds in the Princeton area of southern Miami-Dade County.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-A trained spotter reported wind gusts of 60 mph near the intersection of US 1 and SW 248th Street in Princeton.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-A HAM radio operator estimated wind gusts of 60 mph in Princeton near the intersection of SW 253rd Street and SW 137th Avenue.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-An off duty NWS employee estimated wind gusts of 60 mph in Princeton at the intersection of SW 259th Street and SW 125th Avenue.

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
Princetonian Park0.7 miles16
Naranja1.6 miles16
Silver Palm1.9 miles16
Goulds2.2 miles16
South Allapattah2.3 miles17
Modello3.1 miles16
Leisure City3.2 miles16
Aladdin City3.3 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 PrincetonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1967546The 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 289323. 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.