Bal Harbour, Florida
village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States
Bal Harbour or Bal Harbor Beach is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The village is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The population was 3,093 at the 2020 US Census.
History
Since the 1920s, the Detroit-based Miami Beach Heights Corporation—headed by industrialists Robert C. Graham, Walter O. Briggs, and Carl G. Fisher—owned 245 acres (99 ha) of undeveloped, partially swampy land that stretched from Biscayne Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. Graham assumed the duties as the developer for Bal Harbour. In the 1930s, city planners Harland Bartholomew & Associates were called in to design the village. The company made several plans, and they were submitted to the Miami Beach Heights for review.
The original name chosen for Bal Harbour was Bay Harbour. However, the planning committee did not think that was appropriate for a village that was on the beach. A name was invented to encompass a village that ran from the bay to the Atlantic Ocean.
The public source identifies “Bal Harbour, Florida” as village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Harbour, Florida and village.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q804577. VIAF identifies the subject as 134373868. The Library of Congress control number is n81085491. Authority coordinates are 25.893, -80.126. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020.
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