As I was helping someone verify the "official" cities in the Miami area, I put together this list. I thought I'd share it with you in case you've been losing sleep over whether a certain area is a city or not in Miami-Dade County. =)
The number represents the municipal code. If you live in the county and look up your address' "folio number" (which can be likened to the 'social security' number of a property), your folio number will begin with one of these 2 digits.
01 Miami
02 Miami Beach
03 Coral Gables
04 Hialeah
05 Miami Springs (a friend and resident aptly described it as the Mayberry of Miami. Lovely place)
06 North Miami
07 North Miami Beach
08 Opa-Locka
09 South Miami (this is the city name, sometimes applied erroneously to areas in South Miami-Dade)
10 Homestead (and you do NOT have to live in Homestead to claim the Homestead Exemption that the state of Florida has in place for property owners. Another source of confusion when discussing said exemption, which applies to the place you claim as your homestead)
11 Miami Shores (a shout out to my buddy Ines!)
12 Bal Harbour
13 Bay Harbour Islands
14 Surfside (can you guess where this is?)
15 West Miami (see South Miami above - same error pops up)
16 Florida City
17 Biscayne Park
18 El Portal (this is Spanish for "the front porch." I'll have to look up the history behind that. Ines?)
19 Golden Beach
20 Pinecrest (a favorite of mine)
21 Indian Creek (a nod to the original settlers of our area. MANY Indian names in Florida)
22 Medley
23 North Bay Village
24 Key Biscayne
25 Sweetwater
26 Virginia Gardens
27 Hialeah Gardens
28 Aventura
29 Islandia
30 Unincorporated Miami-Dade County (a repository for the rest of the county that has yet to incorporate itself)
31 Sunny Isles Beach
32 Miami Lakes
33 Palmetto Bay (another of my favorites)
34 Miami Gardens
35 Doral
36 Cutler Bay
So where does that leave "areas" like High Pines, Gables by the Sea, Snapper Creek, Kendall, The Redland, the Hammocks, Country Walk, and so many others? Technically, they are all part of unincorporated Miami-Dade county or a municipality listed above.
As of today's date (3/11/2010) the municipalities list is complete. However, the "areas" list is not. I may work on that list in the future and add a link here when I post it.
Maggie Dokic, SFR is a licensed real estate broker in the state of Florida selling residential real estate in Miami, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Coral Gables, Gables by the Sea, High Pines, the Redland and other select areas of SW Miami-Dade County.
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Plus, there's a huge area west of civilization that is the Everglades, also part of Miami-Dade county. Although it encompasses such a huge land mass that at least 2 counties can say they have a part of it. I'll have to check on the exact counties.
This is helpful for so many businesses out there. I know I'll use it.
Thanks Maggie,
John Perkins
Maggie,
Wow, what a list. i absolutely had no clue that there are so many municipalities. Some I know, of some I have a bit of idea, and so many I never even heard of. Such a great job putting the list together.
John, you're welcome!
Jon, I knew exactly where to get the info =) but I still had to extract it and type. lol
Well that inspires me! I'm going public with LookRealty next week in a bigger way. So I will review this, make some changes and prepare. the LR site rank just rose to 135,728 and its moving up quick.
Maggie,
Good luck and hope you sell a lot this year.
Cal
We not only have unincorporated areas and cities, but the larger cities also have neighborhoods. San Diego now has 101 defined neighborhoods. Many of the neighborhoods have signs and markers telling you where you are:
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John, I'm looking forward to your official launch. Keep me posted, please.
Cal, thanks and wishing you more of the same!
Russel, it's always interested me how the different neighborhoods are defined. Who actually sets the boundaries, and such. Things like that. We also have them (the "areas" I refer to). Some of these will eventually become their own municipalities.
Hello Maggie....thanks for the list!! This sure beats opening up the two sided map to figure out the different areas!!
Sergio, you're welcome! I have my list typed up both alphabetically and numerically so I can easily look it up either way.
Very large metro! We only have three cities and the rest is incorporated Clark County or townships. We have a ton of master planned communities so we can define an area by master plan.
Renee, and these are only the incorporated ones. There's a bunch of others that are techincally not. That's a list for another day. lol