Richmond West is a census-designated place (CDP) in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 35,884 at the 2020 census, up from 31,973 at the 2010 census.

Richmond West has its origins as an before 1900s deal named Eureka. In 1907, the one-room Eureka Schoolhouse was built at the corner of S.W. 147th Avenue (Naranja Road) and S.W. 184th Street (Eureka Drive). It closed in 1916 in the appearance of it and six other area one-room schoolhouses were consolidated into the Redland Farm Life School four miles to the south. In 1927, the Seaboard Air Line Railway arrived, building a depot in the settlement, by after that known as Richmond. Although the depot has long back been demolished, the railroad line, now owned by Seaboard’s successor CSX, remains.

The 1945 Homestead hurricane caused an estimated $50,000,000-worth of damage, impacting the area. Nearly half of the financial loss happened at the next to Richmond Naval Air Station, where winds ignited a flame at three hangars, destroying 25 blimps, 366 planes and 150 automobiles.

The Place remained mostly agricultural until the mid-1980s, when several sub-developments and the Dadeland Mobile Home Park were built south of S.W. 152nd Street (Coral Reef Drive). In August 1992, Hurricane Andrew destroyed the mobile home park and devastated the surrounding area. Many of the homes and businesses in the area were unconditionally destroyed. In subsequent years, the area was gradually rebuilt, and take forward proceeded southward to the community’s southern link up at Eureka Drive.