. Nursing and Health Sciences Building 2009, As the county seat of Miami-Dade County Downtown is home to the central offices and departments of the Miami-Dade County government mainly located in the Government Center area the Stephen P Clark Government Center is the central headquarters of Miami-Dade government with the offices of the Miami-Dade Mayor Although city hall for the City of Miami is in Coconut Grove many offices of Miami's city government are in Downtown including the city's Planning Department the Miami Police Department also has its central offices in Downtown. Fire is an important element in the natural maintenance of the Everglades the majority of fires are caused by lightning strikes from thunderstorms during the wet season Their effects are largely superficial and serve to foster specific plant growth: sawgrass will burn above water but the roots are preserved underneath Fire in the sawgrass marshes serves to keep out larger bushes and trees and releases nutrients from decaying plant matter more efficiently than decomposition Whereas in the wet season dead plant matter and the tips of grasses and trees are burned in the dry season the fire may be fed by organic peat and burn deeply destroying root systems Fires are confined by existing water and rainfall it takes approximately 225 years for one foot (.30 m) of peat to develop but in some locations the peat is less dense than it should be for the 5,000 years of the Everglades' existence Scientists indicate fire as the cause; it is also cited as the reason for the black color of Everglades muck Layers of charcoal have been detected in the peat in portions of the Everglades that indicate the region endured severe fires for years at a time although this trend seems to have abated since the last occurrence in 940 BCE. High rise construction in Downtown Miami in 2007 With a population of more than 18 million according to the 2010 census Florida is the most populous state in the southeastern United States and the third-most populous in the United States; Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001, Humans arrived in the Florida peninsula approximately 15,000 years ago Paleo-Indians came to Florida probably following large game that included giant sloths saber-toothed cats and spectacled bears They found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted for desert conditions However 6,500 years ago climate changes brought a wetter landscape; large animals became extinct in Florida and the Paleo-Indians slowly adapted and became the Archaic peoples They conformed to the environmental changes and created many tools with the various resources available During the Late Archaic period the climate became wetter again and approximately 3000 BCE the rise of water tables allowed an increase in population and cultural activity Florida Indians developed into three distinct but similar cultures that were named for the bodies of water near where they were located: Okeechobee Caloosahatchee and Glades, (Broward County) 1,623,018 1,748,066 1,951,260 +11.62% 13 Sunrise Broward 85,779 84,439 95,458 +13.05% The Metromover is free and has three loops throughout Downtown Brickell and the Arts & Entertainment District There are Metromover stations at roughly every two blocks in the area. Although Miami is not really considered a major center of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s it did not escape the change that occurred Miami was a major city in the southern state of Florida and had always had a substantial African American and black Caribbean population, Everglades 7 External links Average high and low temperatures for various Florida cities In 2014 the City of South Miami passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half with a northern boundary drawn to include the counties of Brevard Orange Polk Hillsborough and Pinellas (roughly the Tampa Bay and Orlando areas) in total the proposed State of South Florida would have included 24 counties. 1.5 2000s to 2010s In 1928 Miami Senior High the district's first secondary school moved into its fifth and current location the building cost over $1 million to construct. Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.03% Concourse H historically served as the base of operations for Piedmont's Miami focus city and US Airways Express's commuter operations Concourse H continues to serve original tenant Delta Air Lines which uses all of the gates on the west side of the pier and 1 gate on the east side to accommodate international arrivals from Havana.
. . 7 In television and entertainment 3 Cities She tried to persuade railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line the Florida East Coast Railway southward to the area but he initially declined in December 1894 Florida was struck by a freeze that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state a few months later on the night of February 7 1895 the northern part of Florida was hit by another freeze that wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees Unlike most of the rest of the state the Miami area was unaffected Tuttle wrote to Flagler again asking him to visit the area and to see it for himself Flagler sent James E Ingraham to investigate and he returned with a favorable report and a box of orange blossoms to show that the area had escaped the frost Flagler followed up with his own visit and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel. . In 2009 fishing was a $6 billion industry employing 60,000 jobs for sports and commercial purposes. Concourse C Central Atlantic 2 Geology At least three airplanes have crashed in the Everglades including: Northwest Airlines Flight 705 (in 1963) Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (1972) and ValuJet Flight 592 (1996). Some Other Race 4.2% 3.2% 3.6% See also: List of mayors of Miami-Dade County Florida, Miami Florida Business directory.
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