Cutler Bay, Florida Cutler Bay, Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Enumeration Bureau map showing town boundaries Enumeration Bureau map showing town boundaries Cutler Bay is an incorporated town in Miami-Dade County, Florida established in 2005, with a current populace of approximately 44,300.

The borders were established as running from SW 184th Street (Eureka Dr) east of US 1 to the coast, and north of Black Point Marina, at 25 34 50 N 80 20 48 W. The town includes areas formerly known as Cutler Ridge. Cutler Bay is positioned at 25 34 58 N 80 20 48 WCoordinates: 25 34 58 N 80 20 48 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP had a total region of 4.9 square miles (13 km2).

Cutler Ridge, an ancient coral formation, stretches from south Miami, where it rises approximately 22 feet, through the Cutler Bay area, at a height of 14 feet, to Homestead, Florida, where it is about 8 feet. Cutler Ridge has been incorporated into the hurricane emergency plans for the region as lands east of the ridge are subject to storm surge, but areas west of the ridge would generally be protected. The town/city of Cutler Bay has its own newspaper, Cutler Bay News, which is presented bi-weekly and is part of Miami Community Newspapers.

The Charles Deering Estate, positioned in close-by Palmetto Bay, contains the Cutler Fossil Site where mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and California condors are among the many fossil records.

The park holds archeological evidence of Native American surroundingion of the territory 10,000 years ago. Tequesta burial mounds are also found there. The region called Cutler Ridge had been called the "Hunting Ground" by some of the earliest Caucasian pioneer in the area, about 1825. In the early 1900s the Florida East Coast Railway was extended south to an region then known as Cutler, which was positioned near what is now the Charles Deering Estate.

Cutler then served as the place where citizens settling in the undeveloped Homestead, Florida region went to get their supplies. Damage from Hurricane Andrew in 1992 in the region now called Cutler Bay In 1992, Hurricane Andrew made landfall near Cutler Ridge. The storm left the region in "almost total destruction". The dense vegetation near the shore and the dense subdivision evolution of the region are thought to have been factors which mitigated the extent of areas impacted by flood damage caused by Andrew. However, nearly every building suffered primary damage from the wind, and the damage in Florida was estimated at $25 billion, the most expensive natural disaster in US history to that point. In May 2002, the Cutler Bay Steering Committee business met to discuss the formation of a municipal advisory committee, where the committee would advise on the incorporation of the Cutler Ridge region into the town/city of Cutler Ridge. The decision to incorporate was spurred in part by the accomplishments to recover from Hurricane Andrew. The proposed incorporation boundaries encompassed Southwest 184th Street on the north and Southwest 216th and 224th streets on the south. In addition, the west boundary would include the Turnpike, U.S.

1 and Southwest 112th Avenue and Biscayne Bay would serve as the east boundary. In April 2005, the Charter committee members looked at over a dozen names for the city, ranging from "Pine Ridge" and "Cutler Bay" to just "Cutler". They reduced the choices to "Cutler Ridge" and "Old Cutler Bay". In November 2005, voters allowed the charter and chose the name "Cutler Bay" for the county's 35th municipality, over "Cutler Ridge" by a vote of 1,920 to 1,403. In the months following the name change, many of those born and raised in the region that had been known as Cutler Ridge since the 1870s refused to accept the new name. Cutler Bay Demographics 2010 Enumeration Cutler Bay Miami-Dade County Florida As of 2000, Cutler Bay had the thirty-fifth highest percentage of Cuban inhabitants in the US, with 13.37% of the populace. It had the 151st highest percentage of Puerto Rican inhabitants in the US, at 6.56% of the town's population, and the eighty-second highest percentage of Colombian inhabitants in the US, at 1.90% of its population. It also had the ninety-fifth most Dominicans in the US, at 1.66% (tied with Palisades Park, New Jersey,) while it had the twenty-ninth highest percentage of Nicaraguans, at 1.43% of all residents. The Miami-Dade Police Department operates the South District Station in Cutler Bay. In January 2006, Cutler Bay propel former Florida state legislator John F.

Cutler Bay is governed by a five-member Town Council and operates under a Council-Manager form of government.

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