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.
Then and now
1947 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1947 against another survey:
Population over time
3 figuresWest 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 12,713 | |
| 2010 | 14,156 | +1,443 (+11%) |
| 2020 | 15,130 | +974 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1947 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
17 since 1993Regional 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 maintenance | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 May 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 April 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 April 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | OLETA |
| 26 March 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Florida Forest Service | THE MIRAMAR FIRE 2 |
| 2 March 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | BANJO (13) |
| 16 March 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.J. Capeletti - No. 3 Pit | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Hollywood Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sterling Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Big Cypress Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Broward Pit No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Main Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Monarch Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Rhodes Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Snake Creek Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utopia | 0.3 miles | 15 | |
| Miami Gardens | 0.4 miles | 15 | |
| Carver Ranches | 0.4 miles | 15 | |
| Hollywood Ridge Farms | 0.7 miles | 15 | |
| Lake Forest | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Pembroke Park | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Miramar | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Pembroke Pines | 1.8 miles | 16 |
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2155989 | The 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.








