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Cutler Bay is one of Miami-Dade County's youngest municipalities - it was incorporated on November 9, 2005, when voters approved the charter and chose the name Cutler Bay over Cutler Ridge by a vote of 1,920 to 1,403, making it the county's 35th municipality.

The town is named after Dr. William Cutler of Massachusetts, who visited the area around 1880 and encouraged others to settle in what became the pioneer town of Cutler, long known locally as Cutler Ridge.

Hurricane Andrew made landfall near Cutler Ridge in 1992 and left the area in almost total destruction - nearly every building suffered major wind damage, and the long, hard recovery helped spur the push to incorporate as Cutler Bay.

Cutler Bay had a population of 45,425 at the 2020 census, up from 40,286 in 2010, making it one of the most populous municipalities in southern Miami-Dade County.

Cutler Bay had 14,620 households counted in 2010, most of them in single-family subdivisions built on and around the old Cutler Ridge area.

The town sits beside the Cutler Ridge, an ancient coral rock formation that runs from south Miami through the Cutler Bay area to Homestead - county hurricane plans treat land west of the ridge as generally protected from storm surge, while areas east of it are exposed.

Cutler Bay is a gateway to Biscayne National Park, and its Black Point Marina is one of the main launching points for boating, fishing and kayaking trips into the park's waters.

Cutler Bay is home to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, a performing arts venue that opened in 2011 and became a cultural anchor for the whole southern end of the county.

The town's Southland Mall began life as Cutler Ridge Mall - after Hurricane Andrew, only its Sears building was left standing, and the rebuilt mall was renamed Southland Mall in 2003.