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Sunset, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Westside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33173. The Survey maps it on the South Miami quadrangle. 15,912 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Sunset 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 Sunset, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sunset, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Sunset fell from 17,150 to 15,912 between 2000 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
200017,150
201016,389-761 (-4%)
202015,912-477 (-3%)

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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Sunset between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,334 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 maintenance19
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Smoking1

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 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1994Misuse of fire by a minor20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2001Natural700 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBIG DADDY COMMAND
14 June 2011Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNSET (13)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sunset: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Kendall Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oolite Rock Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tropical Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

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
Sunset Corners1.0 miles14
Glenvar Heights1.4 miles14
Olympia Heights1.4 miles14
Westwood Lake1.9 miles14
Pioneer Park2.0 miles14
Green-Mar Acres2.5 miles14
Kendall2.6 miles14
Kendale Lakes2.9 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 SunsetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2019785The 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 1867214. 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.