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Sweetwater, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the North Westside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33174. The Survey maps it on the Hialeah quadrangle. 19,363 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sweetwater, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Sweetwater grew from 13,499 to 19,363 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
201013,499
202019,363+5,864 (+43%)

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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,092 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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 maintenance39
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTURNPIKE FIRE (06)
6 August 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2009Natural150 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOWIE FIRE
22 August 2009Natural60 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTALL GRASS FIRE
12 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1999Debris and open burning150 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Sweetwater: 9 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
American Rock, Inc. - the PitLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Florida Rock Industries- Miami QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Florida Rock Industries, Inc. - Miami MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Miami Crushed Rock, Inc.Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Tarmac-Florida - Coral Aggergates QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Coral Cables QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Limerock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miami Cement Plant/ Rinker CorpStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Miami MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miami Quarry & Cement PlantStone, 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
University Park1.2 miles14
Town Park Estates1.3 miles14
Tamiami1.4 miles12
Fountainebleau1.5 miles14
Westwood Lake2.4 miles14
Westchester2.5 miles14
Vanderbilt Park2.6 miles14
Pioneer Park2.7 miles14

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 SweetwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2180831The 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 291939. 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.