In 2010 58.1% of the county's population was foreign born with 41.1% being naturalized American citizens Of foreign-born residents 95.4% were born in Latin America 2.4% were born in Europe 1.4% born in Asia 0.5% born in Africa 0.2% in North America and 0.1% were born in Oceania. The City of Miami has various lands operated by the National Park Service the Florida Division of Recreation and Parks and the City of Miami Department of Parks and Recreation, 11 Media Seminoles made their home in the Everglades, Miami Florida Business directory Precipitation during the wet season is primarily caused by air mass thunderstorms and the easterly flow out of the subtropical high (Bermuda High) Intense daytime heating of the ground causes the warm moist tropical air to rise creating the afternoon thundershowers typical of tropical climates 2:00 pm is the mean time of daily thundershowers across South Florida and the Everglades Late in the wet season (August and September) precipitation levels reach their highest levels as tropical depressions and lows add to daily rainfall Occasionally tropical lows can become severe tropical cyclones and cause significant damage when the make landfall across south Florida Tropical storms average one a year and major hurricanes about once every ten years Between 1871 and 1981 138 tropical cyclones struck directly over or close to the Everglades Strong winds from these storms disperse plant seeds and replenish mangrove forests coral reefs and other ecosystems Dramatic fluctuations in precipitation are characteristic of the South Florida climate Droughts floods and tropical cyclones are part of the natural water system in the Everglades. Miami is the southern terminus of Amtrak's Atlantic Coast services running two lines the Silver Meteor and the Silver Star both terminating in New York City the Miami Amtrak Station is located in the suburb of Hialeah near the Tri-Rail/Metrorail Station on NW 79 St and NW 38 Ave Current construction of the Miami Central Station will move all Amtrak operations from its current out-of-the-way location to a centralized location with Metrorail MIA Mover Tri-Rail Miami International Airport and the Miami Intermodal Center all within the same station closer to Downtown the station was expected to be completed by 2012 but experienced several delays and was later expected to be completed in late 2014 again pushed back to early 2015. North Terminal (Blue), New River Private schools, Student organizations All of the 67 counties in Florida. 6.3 Seaports In 2007 Miami was identified as having the rudest drivers in the United States the second year in a row to have been cited in a poll commissioned by automobile club AutoVantage Miami is also consistently ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the United States for pedestrians, Libraries 2.4.2 Growth as a global city, Adrian Dominican School of Education (ADSOE); 1950 2,771,305 46.1% All streets and avenues in Miami-Dade County follow the Miami grid with a few exceptions most notably in Coral Gables Hialeah Coconut Grove and Miami Beach One neighborhood the Roads is named as such because its streets run off the Miami grid at a 45-degree angle and therefore are all named roads, On June 27 2005 the popular ex-city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Miami Herald headquarters dropped off a package for columnist Jim DeFede and told the security guard to tell his wife Stephanie he "loved her" before pulling out a gun and committing suicide His suicide happened the day the alternative weekly Miami New Times published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs including allegations that Teele had sex with a transsexual prostitute and used cocaine At the time Teele was being investigated by federal authorities for fraud and money laundering for allegedly taking $59,000 in kickbacks to help a businessman get millions of dollars in contracts at Miami International Airport Teele was suspended from his job in 2004 by Florida governor Jeb Bush after being arrested for trying to run a police officer off the road Teele was also charged in December 2004 with ten counts of unlawful compensation on charges he took $135,000 from TLMC Inc promising that it would be awarded lucrative contracts to redevelop neighborhoods in Miami Teele was also found guilty in March 2005 for threatening an undercover detective. .
Novelist & Screenwriter Hamilton Disston's land sale notice, 1980s and 1990s 1890s: Fast growth and formation, Highland Beach (24.8) 78.9 Coconut Creek. . . . In addition to the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market West Palm Beach has its own It is the 49th largest radio market and the 38th-largest television market in the U.S Television stations serving the West Palm Beach area include WPTV (NBC) WPEC (CBS) WPBF (ABC) WFLX (FOX) WTVX (The CW) WXEL (PBS) WTCN (MyNetworkTV) and WPXP (ION) the West Palm Beach market shares use of WSCV and WLTV for Telemundo and Univision respectively Also both markets cross over and tend to be available interchangeably between both areas in 2015 WPBT and WXEL merged their operations to form South Florida PBS although both stations have maintained separate programming schedules and social media platforms but share the same subchannel lineup, Growth of urban areas, Endangered marine species include the manatee seals sea lions turtles and whales Drift net fishing can kill dolphins albatrosses and other seabirds (petrels auks) hastening the fish stock decline and contributing to international disputes Municipal pollution comes from the eastern United States southern Brazil and eastern Argentina; oil pollution in the Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico Lake Maracaibo Mediterranean Sea and North Sea; and industrial waste and municipal sewage pollution in the Baltic Sea North Sea and Mediterranean Sea. . Main article: Geography and ecology of the Everglades Main article: Restoration of the Everglades, Greater Bethel AME Church (1927) T? Public transportation 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement.
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