. Map of Miami in 1955 A satellite image of Miami International Airport superimposed over the noted locations of old Miami City Airport / Pan American Field / 36th Street Airport of the 1920s to 1950s era in the upper right corner facing 36th Street; 1840 54,477 56.9% Air crashes, Unlike a consolidated city-county where the city and county governments merge into a single entity these two entities are separate Instead there are two "tiers" or levels of government: city and county There are 34 municipalities in the county the City of Miami being the largest. The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth the few published accounts from that period describe the area as a wilderness that held much promise the area was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida" After the Great Freeze of 1894 the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived Julia Tuttle a local landowner convinced Henry Flagler a railroad tycoon to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami on July 28 1896 Miami was officially incorporated as a city with a population of just over 300. 9 Transportation Dade County Courthouse built in 1928 is the tallest building built in the 1920s, First Cuban wave Miami FC became the first professional soccer team based in the city to win a national soccer title after winning the 2018 NPSL Championship.

In 2010 51.1% of the county's population was foreign born with 48.7% being naturalized American citizens Of foreign-born residents 93.0% were born in Latin America 3.2% were born in Europe 2.7% born in Asia 0.5% born in Africa 0.5% in North America and 0.1% were born in Oceania. . As of 2010 28.07% of the population spoke only English at home while 63.77% of the population spoke Spanish 4.22% spoke French Creole (mainly Haitian Creole) 0.64% French and 0.55% Portuguese 52% of the county residents were born outside the United States while 71.93% of the population spoke a language other than English at home. . . Water is the dominant force in the Everglades shaping the land vegetation and animal life in South Florida Starting at the last glacial maximum 21,000 years ago continental ice sheets retreated and sea levels rose This submerged portions of the Florida peninsula and caused the water table to rise Fresh water saturated the limestone that underlies the Everglades eroding some of it away and created springs and sinkholes the abundance of fresh water allowed new vegetation to take root and formed convective thunderstorms over the land through evaporation, Institutions provide services to ease the conduct of international business.