Monday March 12, 2007

This just came up: there are 32 Cities in Miami-Dade. Don’t click yet — write down as many as you can from memory first!

1. Ten Pikemen    Mon Mar 12, 10:23 PM #  
   
   

   Islandia
   West Miami
   Coral gables
   Pinecrest
   Miami Shores
   Biscayne Park
   Doral
   Miami Lakes
   Hialeah gardens
   Hialeah
   El Portal
   Golden beach
   Sunny Isles Beach
   Bal Harbor
   Bal Harbor Isles (?)
   North bay Village
   Cutler Bay
   Palmetto Bay
   Homestead
   Florida City
   Miami Gardens
   Medley
   Miami Springs
   Miami
   Surfside
   Miami Beach
   North miami
   North Miami Beach
   Key Biscayne

   Ok I got stumped at this point and checked the list…

   I missed Sweetwater, Virginia Gardens, Indian Creek Village, Aventura and South Miami. Can’t believer I missed South Miami.

   Oh and the list is missing Islandia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islandia%2C_Florida

   
   
   
2. alesh    Mon Mar 12, 10:38 PM #  
   
   

   Good job!

   ps — Islandia is too on the list!

   
   
   
3. NicFitKid    Mon Mar 12, 11:38 PM #  
   
   

   Islandia, oh Islandia! Why is that still a municipality? Seriously, it’s a legal fiction on Elliot Key where no can even build a house.

   Such a waste of a cool name. If Miami-Dade were more like the crazy novel in my head, Islandia would be a micro-nation off the coast pumping out pirate radio and free WiFi, as well as dealing in shady bank transfers and server farms of ill repute.

   
   
   
4. Ten Pikemen    Tue Mar 13, 01:35 AM #  
   
   

   NicFitKid,

   Sealand beat you to it.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand

   
   
   
5. knownothing    Tue Mar 13, 02:03 AM #  
   
   

   where in the FUCK is “Islandia?” i don’t care what any of you critical idiots say, that city doesn’t exist!

   
   
   
6. John    Tue Mar 13, 08:03 AM #  
   
   

   I think the list did miss Miami Lakes, it is recently incorperated but abscent from the list. I got 26 from memory, I wasn’t sure if Sweetwater, Medely and El Portal were actually incorperated.

   My list read like:

   Miami
   Miami Beach
   North Miami Beach
   North Miami
   South Miami
   Miami Gardens
   Miami Lakes
   Hialeah
   Hialeah Gardens
   Opa-Locka
   Miami Springs
   Coral Gables
   Homestead
   Perrine
   Doral
   North Bay Village
   Bal Harbor
   Bay Harbor Islands
   Surfside
   Miami Shores
   Surfside
   Sunny Isles Beach
   Golden Beach
   Aventura
   Biscayne Park

   
   
   
7. MiamianLawStudent    Tue Mar 13, 02:39 PM #  
   
   

   The list is wrong. There are 35 cities in Miami-Dade.

   The list is missing Miami Lakes, Palmetto Bay, and Cutler Bay.

   I compiled this data for a research paper. Here’s a list with of the 35 with their dates of incorporation.
   1. Miami, 1896
   2. Homestead, 1913
   3. Florida City, 1914
   4. Miami Beach, 1915
   5. Coral Gables, 1925
   6. Hialeah, 1925
   7. Miami Springs, 1926
   8. North Miami Beach, 1926
   9. Opa-Locka, 1926
   10. South Miami, 1926
   11. North Miami, 1927
   12. Golden Beach, 1929
   13. Miami Shores, 1932
   14. Biscanye Park, 1933
   15. Surfside, 1935
   16. El Portal, 1937
   17. Indian Creek Village, 1939
   18. Sweetwater, 1941
   19. North Bay, 1945
   20. Bal Harbour, 1946
   21. Bay Harbour Islands, 1947
   22. Virginia Gardens, 1947
   23. Hialeah Gardens, 1948
   24. Medley, 1949
   25. West Miami, 1949
   26. Islandia, 1960

   That’s 26 incorporations over 64 years.

   27. Key Biscayne, 1991
   28. Aventura, 1995
   29. Pinecrest, 1995
   30. Sunny Isles Beach, 1997
   31. Miami Lakes, 2000
   32. Palmetto Bay, 2002
   33. Miami Gardens, 2003
   34. Doral, 2003
   35. Cutler Bay, 2005

   That’s 9 since 1991 and 6 since 1997. When I wrote that paper there were 5 communities in the incorporation pipeline with a real chance of success (there has since been a moratorium on new incorporations).