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The Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for Miami-Dade County, Florida. The department serves 29 municipalities and all unincorporated areas of Miami-Dade County from 60 fire stations. [130]
The city also has approximately a sixth of the population of its own county, Miami-Dade, which is the state's largest. The city witnessed rapid growth over the first half of the twentieth century, as its population grew from 1,681 at the time of the 1900 census to 249,276 at the time of the 1950 census .
Miami, [b] officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeast after Atlanta, and the ninth-largest in the United States. [9]
Map of the municipalities (colored) and census-designated places (gray) of Miami-Dade County. Communities in Miami-Dade County, all located in the county's eastern half, include 34 municipalities (19 cities, 6 towns and 9 villages), 37 census-designated places, and several unincorporated communities.
Miami-Dade County has a relatively high percentage of Republican voters for an urban county, due partially to its Cuban-American population, which leans Republican as a result of its anti-communist views, but Miami-Dade County still remains very Democratic when compared with most of Florida's other counties.
Before it was Miami Gardens, it was Carol City, an unincorporated neighborhood with a population of roughly 60,000 in what was then Dade County. Gena Grant’s family moved to Carol City in 1977.
Although the proposal would include merging other counties, Renner singled out Miami-Dade and Monroe — with populations of 2.7 million people and 80,000.
I love visiting underrated parts of Miami and Dade County, like Allapattah and North Miami Beach. But as a Florida local, South Beach is overrated.