Silver Palm is an unincorporated community and ghost town

Ghost town

A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...

 in Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the state of Florida. As of 2010 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 2,496,435, making it the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States...

, Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. It is located about 20 miles (32.2 km) southwest of Miami

Miami, Florida

Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...

 within the unincorporated community of Redland

Redland, Florida

Redland, sometimes pluralized The Redlands, is an agricultural community in metropolitan Miami, Florida, United States, about southwest of Downtown Miami. Many farms, original clapboard homes of early settlers, u-pick'em fields and coral rock walls dot the landscape. It is named for the red clay...

. Formerly a distinct community in the first half of the 20th Century, it has now been absorbed into other communities in the region. Homestead and Redland district, FL directory for 1927-1928 includes the Community of Silver Palm The community name survives in Silver Palm Drive and the Silver Palm Schoolhouse

Silver Palm Schoolhouse

The Silver Palm Schoolhouse is an historic school in Goulds, Florida. It is located at Silver Palm Drive and Newton Road. On July 2, 1987, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.-References and external links:* at * ** **...

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Geography

Silver Palm is located at about 25°33'N 80°27'W (25.551,-80.441), with an elevation 10 feet (3 m).