Live in Amelia

Amelia is the master plan's name for Hialeah's corner east of East 4th Avenue between E 49th and E 65th Streets: District 7 of the Palm Springs and Amelia area, named for Amelia Earhart Park to the north. The park is not in it, or in Hialeah at all: it is Miami-Dade County land, and across E 65th Street the County's map puts the City of Opa-locka, with the park beyond to the northwest. The 2020 census counted 4,386 residents in 1,305 homes inside the line, the fewest of the area's five guides, on plats called Gratigny Heights, Saratoga Heights, Ingleside Park and Logan Crest. No record says what residents call the place or where they think it ends.

The name has a history here. Earhart left on her last flight in 1937 from Miami Municipal Airport, which Wikipedia's article on the park, itself short of citations, places east of Le Jeune Road and south of E 65th Street, this guide's ground; the field was renamed Amelia Earhart Field in 1947. Miami-Dade County's plat layer still calls the land under the City's works yards and the two public schools Miami Municipal Airport. The houses came after: the City's zoning layer dates 872 of the 1,079 single-family parcels to the 1950s, and only three parcels have been built since 2020.

More than half the land is not houses. Of 487 parcel acres the zoning layer designates 105, or 21.5%, industrial, 80 more transportation and utilities and 51 institutional: acres of parcels by designation, not jobs. The City's Streets, Fleet and Solid Waste operations work from 5601 E 8th Avenue and 900 E 56th Street, and the Police Department's main station is at 5555 E 8th Avenue. The master plan calls the City-owned Streets and Police site a chance to redefine the area, describes the E 49th Street gateway as dominated by car-oriented industrial uses, and proposes a pilot of pre-reviewed small multiplexes near it. None of that is a rezoning; the plan calls its maps conceptual.

The flood map is light. On the City's flood layer 392 residents, 8.9%, live in a FEMA special flood hazard area, all in zone AH, shallow ponding, which covers 24.1% of the area; the reference point is zone X. The 2009 maps use the older NGVD29 datum. Flood here is rain, not surge: no part of the guide is in a storm surge evacuation zone, and no record says how any street fared in Irma or the June 2024 rains. The City's CRS class 7 takes 15% off a flood premium in the zone and 5% outside, and its 50% rule brings a house up to new-construction standards, elevation included, once five years of work reaches half its market value. From 1 January 2027 every Citizens policy with wind cover must also carry flood cover, a separate policy.

One ZIP code, and not a cheap one. Every resident is in 33013, whose Zillow value was $566,422 in August 2026, up 2.1% on the year, a ZIP-wide figure. Every City of Hialeah address pays 18.6468 mills for 2025, with no County fire or library levy because the City runs both, so a homestead at that figure owes about $9,792 a year on the base exemptions and a landlord about $10,562. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and resets on sale, so the seller's bill understates yours; portability can carry an earlier Florida homestead's benefit. Garbage is $36.50 a month on the City utility account; whether a City assessment also sits on the tax bill was not checked. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page. The nearest bus every 15 minutes is 2.5 km east, at Miami Dade College North Campus.