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1 Early settlement A street grid stretches from downtown Miami throughout the county This grid was adopted by the City of Miami following World War I after the United States Post Office threatened to cease mail deliveries in the city because the original system of named streets with names often changing every few blocks and multiple streets in the city sharing the same name was too confusing for the mail carriers the new grid was later extended throughout the county as the population grew west south and north of city limits. Fire stations Music history High schools (open to all Downtown residents):. . . The Miami Metrorail is the state's only rapid transit system About 15% of Miamians use public transit daily. Limestone Creek The Miami Marlins and St Louis Cardinals conduct spring training in Jupiter at Roger Dean Stadium, The bay is divided from the Atlantic Ocean by the many barrier isles along the coast one of which is where well-known Miami Beach is located home to South Beach and the Art Deco district the Florida Keys which are also barrier islands are only accessible through Miami-Dade County but which are otherwise part of neighboring Monroe County Miami is seventy miles from West Palm Beach and thirty miles from Fort Lauderdale.

Cypress swamps can be found throughout the Everglades but the largest covers most of Collier County the Big Cypress Swamp is located to the west of the sawgrass prairies and sloughs and it is commonly called "The Big Cypress." the name refers to its area rather than the height or diameter of the trees; at its most conservative estimate the swamp measures 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) but the hydrologic boundary of the Big Cypress can be calculated at over 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2) Most of the Big Cypress sits atop a bedrock covered by a thinner layer of limestone the limestone underneath the Big Cypress contains quartz which creates sandy soil that hosts a variety of vegetation different from what is found in other areas of the Everglades the basin for the Big Cypress receives on average 55 inches (140 cm) of water in the wet season. Bal Harbour The Downtown Miami Historic District is the city's largest historic district with buildings ranging from 1896 to 1939 in the heart of Downtown. Neighborhoods 6 Further reading, Economic forces: economics explains country differences in costs currency values and market size, (65) 4.45 Admissions Skytrain Overview 4.2 Water masses Miami Florida Business directory. Enterprise Florida the state's economic development agency identifies "Southeast Florida" as one of eight economic regions used by the agency and other state and outside entities including the Florida Department of Transportation Some entities alternately designate this region "South Florida" Its definition includes much of the same territory as Lamme and Oldakowski's report (except the Gulf Coast and much of the interior Glades region) as well as additional area it includes Monroe County (the Keys) and the three metropolitan counties of Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach, The mouth of the Miami River at Brickell Key. . Pensacola 16/6 18/8 21/11 24/14 29/19 32/22 32/23 32/23 31/21 27/16 21/10 17/7 Fluctuating sea levels compressed numerous layers of calcium carbonate sand and shells the resulting permeable limestone formations that developed between 25 million and 70 million years ago created the Floridan Aquifer which serves as the main source of fresh water for the northern portion of Florida However this aquifer lies beneath thousands of feet of impermeable sedimentary rock from Lake Okeechobee to the southern tip of the peninsula, Ocean Drive Miami Florida Business directory 2.3.1 First Cuban wave. .