Sunshine State Arch

Built in 1964. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“Sunshine State Arch is a national historic site located at the intersection between NW 13th Ave. and NW 167th St., at the entrance to the Sunshine State Industrial Park in Miami Gardens, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. It was inspired by the monumental Gateway Arch in St.”
Wikipedia article Sunshine State Arch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 2014 · category: Structure · built in 1964.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of NW. 13th Ave. & NW. 167th St., Miami Gardens, 33169
When was it listed? May 2014
Category. structure
Census division. Miami
When was it built? 1964
National Register reference number. 14000210 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1947 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, 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 covering Sunshine State Arch, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Sunshine State Arch, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Sunshine State Arch between 1992 and 2018, burning about 284 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
17 September 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 May 2003	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 May 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	DIE HARD FIRE
28 April 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 April 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 April 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunshine State Arch: 2 producers. All of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	A.J. Capeletti - No. 3 Pit	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
	Broward Pit No. 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Crouse House	2.1 miles	1987
Haislip House	2.1 miles	1987
Tinsman House	2.1 miles	1987
Taber Duplex	2.2 miles	1987
Higgins Duplex	2.2 miles	1987
Helm Stores and Apartments	2.2 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami-Dade County	All 191 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.