. School of Architecture Lincoln Road, West Park St Jude Catholic Church (1946) 6.3 Water and Sewer Department 9 Transportation The Downtown Miami Historic District is the city's largest historic district with buildings ranging from 1896 to 1939 in the heart of Downtown. 6.2 Major airports Much of Florida is on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico the Atlantic Ocean and the Straits of Florida Spanning two time zones it extends to the northwest into a panhandle extending along the northern Gulf of Mexico It is bordered on the north by Georgia and Alabama and on the west at the end of the panhandle by Alabama It is the only state that borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico Florida also is the southernmost state in the 48 contiguous states with Hawaii being the only state reaching farther south Florida is west of the Bahamas and 90 miles (140 km) north of Cuba Florida is one of the largest states east of the Mississippi River and only Alaska and Michigan are larger in water area the water boundary is 3 nautical miles (3.5 mi; 5.6 km) offshore in the Atlantic Ocean and 9 nautical miles (10 mi; 17 km) offshore in the Gulf of Mexico; City Commission, (102) 2.08 History Following the demise of the Calusa and Tequesta Native Americans in southern Florida were referred to as "Spanish Indians" in the 1740s probably due to their friendlier relations with Spain the Creek invaded the Florida peninsula; they conquered and assimilated what was left of pre-Columbian societies into the Creek Confederacy They were joined by remnant Indian groups and formed the Seminole a new tribe by ethnogenesis the Seminole originally settled in the northern portion of the territory in addition free blacks and fugitive slaves made their way to Florida where Spain had promised slaves freedom and arms if they converted to Catholicism and pledged loyalty to Spain These African Americans gradually created communities near those of the Seminole and became known as the Black Seminoles the groups acted as allies, North Atlantic hurricane activity has increased over past decades because of increased sea surface temperature (SST) at tropical latitudes changes that can be attributed to either the natural Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) or to anthropogenic climate change a 2005 report indicated that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) slowed down by 30% between 1957 and 2004 If the AMO were responsible for SST variability the AMOC would have increased in strength which is apparently not the case Furthermore it is clear from statistical analyses of annual tropical cyclones that these changes do not display multidecadal cyclicity Therefore these changes in SST must be caused by human activities. ; Ziff Education Building 1995 % Admitted 47.9 47.3 45.5 43.8 44.6 Southside Elementary School for Brickell children. . 2.4.2 Growth as a global city 7 Restoration Public transportation in Miami is operated by Miami-Dade Transit and SFRTA and includes commuter rail (Tri-Rail) heavy-rail rapid transit (Metrorail) an elevated people mover (Metromover) and buses (Metrobus) Miami has Florida's highest transit ridership as about 17% of Miamians use transit on a daily basis the average Miami public transit commute on weekdays is 90 minutes while 39% of public transit riders commute for more than 2 hours a day the average wait time at a public transit stop or station is 18 minutes while 37% of riders wait for more than 20 minutes on average every day the average single trip distance with public transit is 7.46 mi (12 km) while 38% travel more than 8.08 mi (13 km) in each direction.

Climate Miami Florida Business directory, Deerfield Beach 75,018 64,585 Broward (31.4) 90.8 The same year the park was dedicated two hurricanes and the wet season caused 100 inches (250 cm) to fall on South Florida Although there were no human casualties agricultural interests lost approximately $59 million in 1948 Congress approved the Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control and Other Purposes (C&SF) which divided the Everglades into basins in the northern Everglades were Water Conservation Areas (WCAs) and the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee in the southern Everglades was Everglades National Park Levees and pumping stations bordered each WCA and released water in dryer times or removed it and pumped it to the ocean in times of flood the WCAs took up approximately 37 percent of the original Everglades the C&SF constructed over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of canals and hundreds of pumping stations and levees within three decades During the 1950s and 1960s the Miami metropolitan area grew four times as fast as the rest of the nation Between 1940 and 1965 6 million people moved to South Florida: 1,000 people moved to Miami every week Developed areas between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s quadrupled Much of the water reclaimed from the Everglades was sent to newly developed areas. Grade 9: 27,211 The Miami accent is based on a fairly standard American accent but with some changes very similar to dialects in the Mid-Atlantic (especially the New York area dialect Northern New Jersey English and New York Latino English.) Unlike Virginia Piedmont Coastal Southern American and Northeast American dialects the "Miami accent" is rhotic; it also incorporates a rhythm and pronunciation heavily influenced by Spanish (wherein rhythm is syllable-timed), Allapattah and Grapeland Heights Top government employers - Foreign language requirement. 17 External links, Demographics Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Riverside Elementary School for CBD children. Gate Group's Latin American headquarters, The School Board of Miami-Dade County first met in Miami on June 27 1885 Those present at the first Board of Education meeting were Superintendent C.H Lumm and members of the board W.H Benest Joseph F Frow and Adam C Richards the main order of business consisted of dividing the district which at the time spanned from the current-day Florida Keys to Martin County Superintendent and members divided Dade County into four districts Lake Worth was declared District #1 while Miami became known as District #2 Coconut Grove fell within the boundaries of District #3 with Elliott's Key and all other islands or keys comprising District #4. .