Hialeah, Florida Hialeah, Florida City of Hialeah Flag of Hialeah, Florida Flag Official seal of Hialeah, Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Hialeah (pronunciation: / ha li /) is a town/city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
As of the 2010 census, Hialeah has a populace of 224,669.
Hialeah is the sixth-largest town/city in the state.
It is positioned west-northwest of Miami, and is the only place in the county, other than Homestead, Florida, to have its own street grid numbered separately from the rest of the county (which is otherwise based on Miami Avenue at Flagler Street in downtown Miami, the county seat).
Hialeah has the highest percentage of Cuban and Cuban American inhabitants of any town/city in the United States, at 74% of the population, making them a distinct ive and prominent feature of the city's culture.
Hialeah also has one of the biggest Spanish-speaking communities in the country.
This has thriving many companies to Hialeah, such as Telemundo, the second biggest Spanish-language tv network in the United States, which is headquartered in the city.
Hialeah is served by the Miami Metrorail at Okeechobee, Hialeah, and Tri-Rail/Metrorail Transfer stations.
The Okeechobee and Hialeah stations serve primarily as park-and-ride commuter stations to commuters and inhabitants going into Downtown Miami, and Tri-Rail station to Miami International Airport and north to West Palm Beach.
See also: Timeline of Hialeah, Florida The city's name is most generally attributed to Muskogee origin, "Haiyakpo" (prairie) and "hili" (pretty) combining in "Hialeah" to mean "pretty prairie".
Bright in 1921. Together, they advanced not only the town of Hialeah but also Hialeah Park Race Track.
Downtown Hialeah in 1921 Group of tour buses sponsored by real estate developers in Hialeah in 1921.
Griffith's The White Rose which was made at the Miami Movie Studios positioned in Hialeah.
In the years since its incorporation in 1925, many historical affairs and citizens have been associated with Hialeah.
The opening of the horse racing course at Hialeah Park Race Track in 1925 (which was nicknamed the "Grand Dame") received more coverage in the Miami media than any other sporting event in the history of Dade County up to that time and since then there have been countless horse racing histories played out at the world-famous 220-acre (0.89 km2) park. It was considered one of the most grand of thoroughbred horse racing parks with its majestic Mediterranean style architecture and was considered the Jewel of Hialeah at the time. The Hialeah Park Race Track also holds the dual distinct ion of being an Audubon Bird Sanctuary due to its famous pink flamingos and being listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
From Hialeah as she left on her ill-fated flight around the world in 1937. While Hialeah was once envisioned as a playground for the elite, Cuban exiles, fleeing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution as well as World War II veterans and town/city creators transformed the town/city into a working-class community.
Hialeah historian Patricia Fernandez-Kelly explained "It became an affordable Eden." history as Hialeah is the only American industrialized city that continues to grow. From a populace of 1,500 in 1925, Hialeah has grown at a rate faster than most of the ten biggest cities in the State of Florida since the 1960s and holds the project of Florida's fifth-largest city, with more than 224,000 residents.
Predominantly Hispanic, Hialeah inhabitants are characterized as having assimilated their cultural tradition and traditions into a hard-working and diverse improve proud of its ethnicity and family oriented neighborhoods. In January 2009, Forbes periodical listed Hialeah as one of the most boring metros/cities in the United States citing the city's large populace and anonymity in the nationwide media. Hialeah is positioned at 25 51 38 N 80 17 38 W (25.860474, -80.293971). Hialeah Gardens, Medley, Miami Springs Left.svg Right.svg Westview, West Little River, Gladeview, Brownsville, Miami Hialeah Gardens, Medley, Miami Springs Hialeah Demographics 2010 Enumeration Hialeah Miami-Dade County Florida Hialeah is the tenth-largest town/city in the United States among metros/cities with a populace density of more than 10,000 citizens per square mile.
As of 2010, Hialeah had the highest percentage of Cuban and Cuban American inhabitants in the United States, with 73.37% of the populace. It had the forty-third highest percentage of Colombian and Colombian American inhabitants in the US, at 3.16% of the city's population, and the eighty-fifth highest percentage of Dominican and Dominican American inhabitants in the US, at 1.81% of the its population. It also had the thirty-eighth highest percentage of Hondurans and Honduran American in the US, at 1.15%, while it had the eighth highest percentage of Nicaraguans and Nicaraguan American, at 4.07% of all residents. Hialeah rates #2 (nearby Hialeah Gardens rates as #1) in the list of metros/cities in the United States where Spanish is most spoken.
The City of Hialeah is a momentous commercial center in Miami-Dade County.
Hialeah is also home to vibrant improve of mom and pop stores. These shops have been noted to actively and successfully compete against nationwide name brand retailers, outfitters, and franchises. In order to remain competing national businesses have altered their traditional company strategy to meet the demands of the small-town community.
Publix supermarkets opened a Publix Sabor along one of the city's chief streets which caters exclusively to Latin American and Hispanic clientele. Moreover, while most of the manufacturing and cloth trade that made Hialeah an industrialized city in the 1970s-1980s have disappeared, new electronics and technology businesses have reinvigorated the small-town economy. In March 2009, it was announced that a $40 $90 Million restoration universal was set to begin inside the year on the Hialeah Park Race Track. On May 7, 2009 the Florida council agreed to a deal with the Seminole Tribe of Florida that allowed Hialeah Park to operate slot machines and run Quarter Horse competitions. The historic racetrack reopened on November 28, 2009 but only for quarter horse competitions.
The full transformation is expected to cost $1 billion since the plan includes a complete redevelopment of the encircling area including the assembly of an entertainment complex to include a hotel, restaurants, casinos, stores and a theater.In June 2010 concerns were raised over the preservation of Hialeah Park's historical status as the prepared evolution threatens to hurt Hialeah Park's status as a National Historic Landmark.
"Hialeah Park, Fla., the world's greatest race course, Miami Jockey Club." The City of Hialeah boasts 3 tennis centers, more than 5 enhance swimming pools and aquatic centers, and more than 14 enhance parks totaling more than 100 acres (0.40 km2) combined.
Amelia Earhart Park also serves the Hialeah community. Located just south of the Opa Locka Airport, the park consists of 515 acres, including a five-acre Bark Park for dogs.
The University of Florida College of Dentistry operates the Hialeah Dental Clinic.
See also: List of mayors of Hialeah, Florida Hialeah is positioned inside Florida's 27th Congressional District.
It is presently represented in the House of Representatives by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican. According to the nonpartisan Bay Area Center for Voting Research (BACVR) Hialeah, Florida is the fourth most conservative town/city in the United States. The current mayor of Hialeah is Carlos Hernandez. Two high schools serving the Hialeah community, Mater Academy Charter High School and Miami Lakes Tech, were titled as "Silver" award winners in U.S.
Amelia Earhart Elementary School Elementary K-5 473 Airplanes City of Hialeah Educational Academy Charter 9-12 450 Bulldogs Flamingo Elementary School Elementary K-5 950 Hialeah Elementary School Elementary K-5 647 Tigers Hialeah Middle School Middle 6-8 872 Broncos Hialeah High School Senior High 9-12 2874 Thoroughbreds Johnson Elementary School Elementary K-5 690 Alligators Du - Puis Elementary School Elementary K-5 637 Dolphins Walters Elementary School Elementary K-5 625 Eagles Meadowlane Elementary School Elementary K-5 985 Tigers North Hialeah Elementary School Elementary K-5 573 Eagles North Twin Lakes Elementary School Elementary K-5 554 Palm Lakes Elementary School Elementary K-5 747 Dolphins Palm Springs Elementary School Elementary K-5 701 Florida Panthers South Hialeah Elementary School Elementary K-5 1107 Sharks Twin Lakes Elementary School Elementary K-5 565 Eagles Westland Hialeah High School Magnet 9-12 2137 Wildcats Miami-Dade College Hialeah Campus has served as the city's academic center since 1980.
Hialeah's enhance library was established in 1924, one year before to the incorporation of the city. While over the years the county wide Miami-Dade Public Library System has taken over the libraries of most of the metros/cities in the county, Hialeah enhance libraries function autonomously from the county wide system. A projection from 1922 that reads "A projection of the town of Hialeah at the Curtiss-Bright Ranch: Gateway to the Everglades, the first town west of Miami, Florida" In 2013, Hialeah was titled a top five town/city with the worst drivers by Slate and Allstate. Hialeah is served by Miami-Dade Transit along primary thoroughfares by Metrobus, and by the Miami Metrorail, Tri-Rail, and Amtrak at: Hialeah Market (North 41st Street and West 38th Avenue) "All Ways Lead to Hialeah" was one of the city's first slogans.
At the time, Glenn Curtiss and James Bright could not have imagined the meaningful link in the transit chain provided by Hialeah's location.
Harry Wayne Casey, lead singer of KC and the Sunshine Band and graduate of Hialeah High School Erik Courtney, Bravo TV personality Newlyweds: The First Year, born in Hialeah and attended Mae M.
Bucky Dent, experienced baseball player for the MLB New York Yankees and graduate of Hialeah High School Rene Garcia, former City of Hialeah Councilman and Florida State House Representative Ted Hendricks, former experienced NFL football player, Hialeah High Class of 1965 Manny Hernandez, Hialeah High Class of 1971, football, wrestling and boxing.
Former Pastor of West Hialeah Baptist Church Charlie Hough, former experienced baseball player, Hialeah High graduate Richard Hough, former experienced baseball player, Hialeah High graduate Martinez, former mayor of Hialeah, Florida and longest-seated mayor in Hialeah history (1981 2005) Julio Robaina, Mayor of the town/city of Hialeah, Florida as of 2005 Camp Hialeah, a former base of the United States Forces Korea in Busan, South Korea.
City of Hialeah, Florida.
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