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. The turn of the 20th century launched Miami and its school system into decades of growth by 1924 the county lines had shifted with the creation of Broward Palm Beach Lee and Hendry counties Despite losing jurisdiction over many of its schools in just twenty years the school system still boasted 33 separate schools and a student population of nearly 5,000. 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. Total population 399,457 2,496,435 18,801,310 Sargassum fish (Histrio histrio) 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. . .

Historical population Paul Cejas School of Architecture Building 2003 13.2 Residential towers. The oceans are the major source of the atmospheric moisture that is obtained through evaporation Climatic zones vary with latitude; the warmest zones stretch across the Atlantic north of the equator the coldest zones are in high latitudes with the coldest regions corresponding to the areas covered by sea ice Ocean currents influence climate by transporting warm and cold waters to other regions the winds that are cooled or warmed when blowing over these currents influence adjacent land areas. 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement, 13 Sunrise Broward 85,779 84,439 95,458 +13.05% After the Civil War a state agency called the Internal Improvement Fund (IIF) whose purpose was to improve Florida's roads canals and rail lines was discovered to be deeply in debt the IIF found a Pennsylvania real estate developer named Hamilton Disston interested in implementing plans to drain the land for agriculture Disston purchased 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km2) of land for $1 million in 1881 and he began constructing canals near St Cloud at first the canals seemed to work in lowering the water levels in the wetlands surrounding the rivers They were effective in lowering the groundwater but it became apparent that their capacity was insufficient for the wet season Although Disston's canals did not drain well his purchase primed the economy of Florida it made news and attracted tourists and land buyers Within four years property values doubled and the population increased significantly, Red mangrove trees bordering a tidal estuary in the Everglades. Hispanic American Recreation Center 2005, 34.8% Outside of the U.S. (29.4) 88.6 See also: Miami in popular culture LGBT culture in Miami and List of films and television shows set in Miami. Miami International University of Art & Design (private), Northern Atlantic See also: 1968 Miami riot 16 Further reading; .