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More historic than 2% of U.S. towns · #617 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of Hialeah Gardens was built recently: 0.1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Below: maps from 1950 on and the census since 1950.
Hialeah Gardens first appears in the census in 1950.
More historic than 2% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Hialeah Gardens is more historic than 2% of U.S. towns, #617 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Hialeah Gardens’ 0.0 sits below most of its state (33% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first census (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hialeah Gardens’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Hialeah Gardens.
The municipality sprouted from humble beginnings at Walter C. Ohlerts Tourist Camp. By way of 26 unanimous votes, the town of Hialeah Gardens achieved incorporation in December 1948.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
2026Curaçao desk at Miami Star
2025NW 138th St - Mapillary
2024W 68th St - Mapillary
2024SR 932 - Mapillary
2024Hialeah Gardens Blvd - Mapillary
2024Hialeah Gardens Blvd - Mapillary
2023City of Hialeah Gardens Ford F-150
2022Flag of
2012SR 821 Lighted Street Sign
2010Palmetto at Night
2004FLMap-doton-HialeahGardensEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hialeah Gardens. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hialeah Gardens.
Grew from 121 people in 1950 to 23,068 in 2020, more than tenfold.
8 censuses, 1950–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hialeah Gardens’ Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Hialeah Gardens post office opened in 1950, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Hialeah Gardens is more historic than 2% of U.S. towns, #617 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
0.1% of Hialeah Gardens’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1992.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (11), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
