Fort Dallas

Ghost town · Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Fort Dallas is a ghost town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, recorded as historic fort in Miami, Florida, United States of America. It is one of 2 former communities in Miami-Dade County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 25th among the 52 Florida counties with a vanished settlement on record.

Fort Dallas was established in 1844, in the first half of the 19th century.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Fort Dallas as a historical populated place: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 25.7710° N, 80.1924° W.

Key facts

Founded	1844
Nearest living town	Miami, FL
Distance to it	1 miles
Coordinates	25.77100, -80.19240

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What's there now

Fort Dallas is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Miami, FL (population 446,663), about 1 miles away in a straight line. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Images

Digital photo taken by Marc Averette. The en:Fort Dallas park sign in downtown Miami 5/14/2008 · No machine-readable author provided. Averette assumed (based on copyright claims). / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0

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Questions

Where is Fort Dallas?

Fort Dallas is in Miami-Dade County, Florida, at 25.7710, -80.1924.

How many ghost towns are in Miami-Dade County?

Miami-Dade County, Florida has 2 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Wikidata — Wikidata item (CC0)
Wikidata — Wikipedia article (linked as a source; text not used) (CC0)
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line and ACS — Census Gazetteer + ACS 5-year population (public-domain)

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