Miramar, Florida Miramar, Florida City of Miramar Miramar is a town/city in Broward County, Florida, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the populace was 122,041. It is a principal town/city of the Miami urbane area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 citizens at the 2015 census.
6.1 Elementary schools Miramar was established by A.L.
These homes sold quickly because of the low cost of both the homes and the land, and the town/city of Miramar came into being.
The town/city was incorporated on May 26, 1955 and titled for the Cuban town/city outside of Havana where Mailman had a summer home (Miramar translates to "Look at the Sea" in Spanish). At the time of incorporation, the town/city had a populace of less than two hundred citizens .
With approximately 2.9 square miles territory area, Miramar's initial city boundaries were Southwest 64 Avenue on the east, University Drive on the west, the Dade County line on the south, and Pembroke Road on the north.
On June 20, 1955, the city's first mayor (Robert Gordon) and town/city council were sworn in, all of which were appointed by the governor and served until January 1959, at which time the first municipal election was held.
Perry Sr.'s part in Miramar did not cease with selling of the territory to Mr.
He is recognized as one of the foremost pioneers in the history of Miramar.
His character and civic-activities influenced not only the lives of early residents, but continues to the present-day, as evidenced by the schools and parks in the town/city which bear his family's name.
Perry for the lessons in animal husbandry, which he conducted for the benefit of Miramar's youth so that they could learn something of farm life.
Miramar's early town/city fathers promoted the philosophy of prepared and controlled growth.
The town/city adopted a Comprehensive Land Use Plan in 1972 before metros/cities and counties were mandated to do so.
A fact not widely known is that the residentiary City of Miramar is one of the biggest cities in size in the State of Florida.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 31.3 square miles (81.0 km2), of which 29.5 square miles (76.5 km2) is territory and 1.8 square miles (4.6 km2) (5.66%) is water. 2010 Enumeration Miramar Broward County Florida In 2000, the city's populace was spread out with 31.0% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 35.4% from 25 to 44, 18.7% from 45 to 64, and 6.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of 2000, Miramar had the fifth highest percentage of Jamaican inhabitants in the US, with 15.4% of the populace, the fifty-eighth highest percentage of Colombian inhabitants in the US, at 2.51% of the city's population, and the forty-eighth highest percentage of Cuban inhabitants in the US, at 8.77% of the city's population. It also had the seventy-eighth most Dominicans in the US, at 1.98%, while it had the thirty-first highest percentage of Haitians (tied with West Little River,) at 6% of all residents. Miramar's Trinidad and Tobago improve had the twelfth highest percentage of residents, which was at 1.2% (tying with Wheatley Heights, New York and Neptune City, New Jersey.) The Leadership in Energy & Environment Design in Miramar homes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Miami field office and a General Services Administration (GSA) office.
The FBI field office, previously in North Miami Beach, moved to Miramar on December 8, 2014. The building was dedicated on April 10, 2015. Spirit Airlines is headquartered in Miramar. The airline moved to Miramar from Eastpointe, Michigan in November 1999. JL Audio, Arise Virtual Solutions, and Chetu Inc.
According to Miramar's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city were: 1 City of Miramar 920 8 Caremark Miramar Pharmacy 450 Miramar is served by Broward County Public Schools.
Perry Elementary School Coconut Palm Elementary School Coral Cove Elementary School Dolphin Bay Elementary School Fairway Elementary School Miramar Elementary School Sea Castle Elementary School Silver Lakes Elementary School Silver Shores Elementary School Somerset Academy Miramar Elementary Charter School Somerset Academy Central Miramar Elementary Charter School Sunset Lakes Elementary School Sunshine Elementary School Somerset Academy Miramar Middle Charter School Somerset Academy Central Miramar Middle Charter School Miramar High School Somerset Academy Central Miramar High Charter School Broward College (Miramar Town Center) Broward College (Miramar West Center) Florida International University (FIU) (Miramar West Center) Nova Southeastern University (Miramar Campus) Miramar is a part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth biggest radio market and the seventeenth biggest tv market in the United States.
WTVJ, the Miami area's NBC owned and directed station and WSCV, the Telemundo station also owned by NBC shares their studios and administrative offices in Miramar.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Miramar city, Florida".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"MLA Data Center results for Miramar, FL".
"the Federal building at 2030 Southwest 145th Avenue in Miramar, Florida, as the 'Benjamin P.
"Spirit Airlines Honored as Good Corporate Citizen of the Year; Miramar Business Appreciation 2003." City of Miramar CAFR City of Miramar official website Municipalities and communities of Broward County, Florida, United States Mayors of metros/cities with populations exceeding 100,000 in Florida
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