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Indian Creek, Looking toward 41st Street Bridge, Miami Beach, Florida (8029950230)Photo: Boston Public Library · CC BY 2.0
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History · Indian Creek

Indian Creek was first counted by the census in 1940

Most of Indian Creek was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1964. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1940.

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How Indian Creek began

When was Indian Creek founded?

1940

Indian Creek first appears in the census in 1940.

First census: 17 in 19402020 census: 8486 years
Founding year: the first census.The full story ↓

What stands out about Indian Creek’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Indian Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost two-thirds of its people between 1980 and 2000, then more than doubled.Old housesHalf of Indian Creek’s homes were built before 1964.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Indian Creek’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Indian Creek, census by census

010019401960198020002020103 in 1980Low: 33

Lost two-thirds of its people between 1980 and 2000, then more than doubled.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Indian Creek’s Wikipedia page.

The story

How Indian Creek came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Indian Creek.

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The island of Indian Creek was said to have been created in the 1900s via dredging, due to excavation of drainage for Biscayne Bay, and was an uninhabited and underdeveloped mangrove forest until 1928, when the country club and housing lots were established after a group of Midwestern businessmen bought the island as a real estate venture. The Village of Indian Creek was an unincorporated area until it was incorporated by an act of the Florida Legislature on May 17, 1939, at which point the island had 17 residents and the country club had 180 members. For many years, the island served as a space for vacation rentals for the Miami-area elite, until recent years when elite residents from outside the area began living there full-time.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Indian Creek on the map, 1956 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Indian Creek. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Indian Creek on the 1956 USGS mapIndian Creek on the 1981 USGS map1956Miami sheet · 1:250,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Indian Creek.

Famous people

Famous people close to Indian Creek

Nobody well known was born in Indian Creek itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Sidney PoitierBahamian and American actor and diplomat · b. 1927
Marco Rubio72nd United States Secretary of State since 2025 · b. 1971
Eva MendesAmerican actress and model · b. 1974
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Anya Taylor-JoyAmerican actress and model · b. 1996
William H. MacyAmerican actor · b. 1950
Fabiano CaruanaItalian-American chess player · b. 1992
Places that used to be

Old corners

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Indian Creek Village

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

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Questions about Indian Creek’s history

What year was Indian Creek founded?

The Indian Creek post office opened in 1940, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, 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.