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West Park, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miramar-Pembroke Pines census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33023. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle. 15,130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

West Park within Broward 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 West Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of West Park, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

West Park grew from 12,713 to 15,130 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
200012,713
201014,156+1,443 (+11%)
202015,130+974 (+7%)

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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of West Park between 1993 and 2018, burning about 211 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 May 2003Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA
26 March 2006Arson/incendiarism50 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE MIRAMAR FIRE 2
2 March 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBANJO (13)
16 March 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of West Park: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
A.J. Capeletti - No. 3 PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hollywood Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sterling Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Big Cypress PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Broward Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Main QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Monarch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Rhodes PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Snake Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Broward 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
Utopia0.3 miles15
Miami Gardens0.4 miles15
Carver Ranches0.4 miles15
Hollywood Ridge Farms0.7 miles15
Lake Forest1.0 miles15
Pembroke Park1.3 miles15
Miramar1.8 miles15
Pembroke Pines1.8 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 West ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155989The 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 2062996. 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.