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Westwood Lake, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Westside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33165. The Survey maps it on the South Miami quadrangle. 11,373 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Westwood Lake 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 Westwood Lake, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Westwood Lake, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Westwood Lake fell from 12,005 to 11,373 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
200012,005
201011,838-167 (-1%)
202011,373-465 (-4%)

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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Westwood Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,934 acres in total. 5 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 maintenance51
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking1
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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Westwood Lake: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 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
Tarmac-Florida - Coral Aggergates QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Coral Cables QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miami Cement Plant/ Rinker CorpStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Miami MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oolite Rock Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tropical Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

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
Olympia Heights0.9 miles14
University Park1.2 miles14
Pioneer Park1.7 miles14
Sunset1.9 miles14
Town Park Estates2.1 miles14
Kendale Lakes2.3 miles16
Sweetwater2.4 miles14
Tamiami2.4 miles12

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 Westwood LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2428849The 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 293159. 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.