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Richmond Heights, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kendall-Palmetto Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33176. The Survey maps it on the South Miami quadrangle. 8,944 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Richmond Heights within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1950 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Richmond Heights, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Richmond Heights, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

On record in Richmond Heights

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Richmond Heights grew from 8,541 to 8,944 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
20108,541
20208,944+403 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Richmond Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,872 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 87 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 maintenance95
Arson/incendiarism87
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Equipment and vehicle use42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural10
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
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
4 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2006Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FIRE
31 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFULL MOON FIRE
21 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2004Arson/incendiarism80 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOASTIE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Richmond Heights: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Kendall Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perrine Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pit 12Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Richmond QuarryStone, 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
Palmetto Estates0.8 miles17
Rockdale1.5 miles14
Three Lakes1.7 miles16
West Perrine1.8 miles17
Perrine2.0 miles17
Howard2.1 miles14
East Perrine2.2 miles17
Peters2.4 miles17

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 Richmond HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2421971The 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 289685. 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.