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Surfside, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33154. It lies near Biscayne Island. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle. 5,689 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Surfside 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 Surfside, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Surfside, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

On record in Surfside

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Surfside fell from 5,744 to 5,689 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
20105,744
20205,689-55 (-1%)

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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Surfside between 1992 and 2018, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
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)
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA
5 February 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFIU (13)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Surfside in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 1998: 1 flood, 1 waterspout. 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
July 1998WaterspoutSurfside-Pilot reported Waterspout 10nm east of Surfside.
August 1997FloodSurfside-pd reported cars stalling in major street flooding.

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
Indian Creek Village0.6 miles15
Bay Harbor Islands0.7 miles15
Bal Harbour0.9 miles15
Bal Harbor Beach1.1 miles8
Normandy Shores1.5 miles16
Atlantic Heights1.6 miles8
San Souci Estates1.8 miles15
Isle of Normandy1.8 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 SurfsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q922840The 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 291892. 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.