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Three Lakes, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kendale Lakes-Tamiami census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33186. The Survey maps it on the South Miami NW quadrangle. 16,540 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Three Lakes within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1949 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Three Lakes, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Three Lakes, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Three Lakes grew from 6,955 to 16,540 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
20006,955
201015,047+8,092 (+116%)
202016,540+1,493 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

357 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 357 fires within 5 miles of Three Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,161 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 129 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
Arson/incendiarism129
Railroad operations and maintenance91
Equipment and vehicle use52
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning12
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
24 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDJ FIRE
21 September 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRAILROAD (13)
21 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTAMIAMI WEST (13)
18 September 2006Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FIRE
31 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCAIN FIRE
30 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Three Lakes: 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
Richmond Heights1.7 miles14
Country Walk1.9 miles16
Lindgren Acres2.0 miles16
The Crossings2.0 miles16
Palmetto Estates2.4 miles17
West Perrine3.1 miles17
Hawley Heights3.1 miles14
The Hammocks3.2 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 Three LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1840900The 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 1853294. 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.