Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1950.
From the record
“The Hialeah Park Race Track is an American casino and former horse racetrack in Hialeah, Florida. The race track operated from 1922 to 2001 for thoroughbreds, and then again from 2009 to 2016 for quarter horses.”
Wikipedia article Hialeah Park Race Track, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 1979 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.79000664- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1950 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19501994
Fires near this property
25 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hialeah Park Race Track
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 125 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
7
Arson/incendiarism
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Hialeah Park Race Track: 7 producers, 3 past producers, 2 plants.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Aluminum, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hialeah, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 4 heavy rain.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A thunderstorm produced an EF1 Tornado with the highest estimated wind speeds near 90 MPH. The tornado began at West 22nd Street just west of West 1st Avenue where vehicles were moved and flipped at a tow yard. Roof damage occurred to at least five separate apartment complexes, with the worst damage between 22nd and 24th streets, but 8 structures were damaged overall. The tornado lifted at West 28th Street between Palm Avenue and West 1 Avenue.
A tornado touched down near 41st Street and E 8th Avenue, moved north northwest, then lifted near 46th Street and E 6th Avenue. The roof of Hialeah Fire Department Station No. 2 was damaged with debris falling onto vehicles. Other damage occurred to signs and traffic signals with some trees uprooted and numerous large branches blown down.
Three to five inches of rain fell in a three-hour period causing a house roof to collapse in Hialeah. Streets in Kendall were flooded and county-wide power was out to 20,000 customers.
Strong winds affected the city of Hialeah. A light post was knocked down along with a few small trees in the southern section of the city near Palm Avenue and Okeechobee Road.
Reports relayed via broadcast media and social media of significant flooding in Hialeah. Water covered multiple lanes of the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) near W 49th Street, rising to the base of vehicles. Water also rose to the base of an SUV's door in a nearby residential street, with water over 6 inches deep on the street. Measured rainfall in the area was between 3-5 inches, most of it falling in 2 hours or less.
Reports and videos from the public on social media of flooded roads near NW 62nd Street east of I-95 in the Liberty City/Edison area of Miami and NW 40th Street and NW 31st Ave near Miami International Airport. Precipitation analyses indicate near 3 inches of rain fell in this area.
Multiple reports from broadcast media of flooded roadways in Hialeah from heavy rainfall. Rainfall estimates were 2 to 3 inches in the area in a period of 1-2 hours.
A thunderstorm produced a wind gust estimated at 60 mph at the Hialeah Park horse track. A few small trees estimated to be 8 to 9 feet tall were knocked down.
Public reported hail up to golf ball size in the western section of Hialeah. Hail was covering the road on the Palmetto Expressway between NW 74 ST and NW 103 ST.
A tornado touched down in Hialeah and moved south southwest before lifting in the west Doral area. The funnel was visible up to 10 miles away and was photographed by numerous people and the media. No damage was observed along its path. Another small funnel cloud also formed from the parent thunderstorm.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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