The Roads, Florida

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.

1950 1994

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 6 records

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

• Vizcaya (Boundary Increase)National Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.8 miles away
• Casino, VizcayaNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970 · 0.9 miles away
• Southside Schoollisted 1989 · 0.6 miles away
• William Jennings Bryan Houselisted 2012 · 0.6 miles away
• Martina Apartmentslisted 1989 · 1.0 miles away
• Fire Station No. 4listed 1984 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1950 USGS Miami quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Miami quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Miami quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of The Roads between 2002 and 2015, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bay Heights
• Brickell Hammock
• Fisher Island
• Key Biscayne
• Miami
• Port of Miami

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of The Roads: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2076959. 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.