Westland on the Palmetto, Mango Hill and Hialeah Estates, and Seminola on the Miami Canal
The wedge between the Palmetto Expressway, W 53rd Street, W 4th Avenue and Okeechobee Road on the Miami Canal: Westland, Mango Hill, Hialeah Estates and Seminola.
Photograph: The closed Sears Auto Center · Phillip Pessar from Miami, USA · CC BY 2.0 · sourceThis area is the plan's North of Okeechobee, a name that reads oddly since all of Hialeah is north of Okeechobee Road: the plan uses it for the wedge between the Palmetto Expressway, W 53rd Street, W 4th Avenue and the road, which with the Miami Canal beside it is the city's southwest edge. It held 44,106 residents and 16,294 housing units on 2,500 acres in 2020. Every guide here is one or more of the plan's numbered districts, which the plan draws and does not name, so the name on each is the one this site gives it. Westland, the plan's Districts 1 and 3, 17,749 residents on 910 acres, takes the name the mall, a school and the plats give the corner. Mango Hill and Hialeah Estates divide District 4 on W 8th Avenue, the plan's own sub-district line: Mango Hill, 9,366 residents west of it, takes the name of a plat that holds 4,099 of them, and Hialeah Estates, 4,331 east of it, the name of the place OpenStreetMap maps there. Seminola, Districts 5 and 6, 9,731 residents on 602 acres, takes the name of the historic Seminola City plats, which hold 772 of them; the guide also takes in Trojan Park and the blocks by the Okeechobee Metrorail station. The plan's District 2, 2,929 residents of the Palm Springs Fifth Addition below W 53rd Street, has no guide yet. 4 guides are listed below.
The flood map rises toward the canal. On the City's layer 93% of Seminola's residents live in a FEMA special flood hazard area, the highest share anywhere in the old city, and 55% of Mango Hill's. Industrial land follows the same line: Seminola is 36% industrial by parcel acres and Westland between 17% and 19%, while Mango Hill and Hialeah Estates have none. The mobile home parks OpenStreetMap maps in this area are inside Westland and Seminola. Every guide here is in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which assigns students by its own boundaries, so a school inside a guide's line is not necessarily the one a child there attends. A Florida homeowners policy covers wind and not rising water, so FEMA's flood map for the exact address, the elevation certificate, the seller's disclosure of past flooding and a quote for a separate flood policy belong in any offer here.
4 communities, guide by guide
Hialeah Estates
W 8th to W 4th Avenues between W 29th Street and W 44th Place, 328 acres and about 4,300 residents in 2020: 1950s houses on the Industrial Center, Westhaven Park and Hialeah Estates plats, with Filer Middle School, Mae M. Walters Elementary and the City's K.C. Park.
- 4,331
- Residents of the 54 census blocks inside the line, in 1,393 housing units on 328 acres; the Industrial Center plats hold 1,586, Westhaven Park 1,040 and Hialeah Estates 762, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census, with Miami-Dade County's subdivision layer
- 78%
- Share of the 1,138 parcels with a recorded year built that date from the 1950s, 887 of them, median 1956; 1,045 parcels are single-family houses, median lot about 7,100 square feet, and none is designated industrial, City of Hialeah Zoning layer, read 2026
Mango Hill
W 12th to W 8th Avenues between W 29th Street and W 44th Place, 317 acres and about 9,400 residents in 2020: the Mango Hill and West Hialeah Heights subdivisions around Goodlet Park, with Meadowlane Elementary.
- 9,366
- Residents of the 59 census blocks inside the line, in 3,097 housing units on 317 acres; the Mango Hill plat and replat hold 4,099 of them and West Hialeah Heights 1,447, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census, with Miami-Dade County's subdivision layer
- 497
- Cluster-home parcels on the City's zoning layer, in the Mango Hill plat (median year built 1979), its replat (1984), Treelane (1986) and Natalie Estates (1987), beside 428 detached houses on lots of about 7,100 square feet; median year built across all 1,031 dated parcels 1978, City of Hialeah Zoning layer, read 2026
Seminola
The corner of the old city between W 29th Street, W 4th Avenue and Okeechobee Road on the Miami Canal, 602 acres and about 9,700 residents in 2020: the Seminola City plats and Trojan Park, Walker Park and its e-library, the Okeechobee Metrorail station and industrial land south of W 21st Street.
- 9,731
- Residents of the 108 census blocks inside the line, in 3,799 housing units on 602 acres (Hialeah 2050 Master Plan, North of Okeechobee Districts 5 and 6), U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 772
- Residents of the two plats recorded as Seminola City and Plat of Seminola City, the plats the name comes from, against 1,457 in Trojan Park and 3,460 in the Florida Fruit Lands Co. subdivision, Miami-Dade County plat layer over the 2020 census blocks
Westland
The Palmetto Expressway side of the old city, W 12th Avenue to the Expressway from Okeechobee Road and W 29th Street up to W 53rd Street, 910 acres and about 17,700 residents in 2020: Westland Mall on W 49th Street, Westland Hialeah Senior High, two hospitals and a string of mobile home parks.
- 17,749
- Residents of the 89 census blocks in the master plan's North of Okeechobee Districts 1 and 3, in 7,067 housing units on 910 acres; the City's zoning layer records 9 parcels built since 2020, carrying 381 units, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census, and City of Hialeah, 2026
- 30.1%
- Share of 2020 residents (5,344 of 17,749) living in a FEMA special flood hazard area, all of them in zone AH, shallow ponding; 42.4% of the area by acreage, counting lakes; the reference point is zone X on a panel effective 11 September 2009, City of Hialeah Flood Zones layer and FEMA, read 2026
Photographs: Palm Avenue by Ivan Curra, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · Hialeah Market station by Phillip from Miami, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.