Place:Brevard, Florida, United States

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NameBrevard
Alt namesBrevardsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates28.283°N 80.733°W
Located inFlorida, United States     (1844 - )
See alsoManatee, Florida, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Monroe, Florida, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Orange, Florida, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Osceola, Florida, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Polk, Florida, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
St. Lucie, Florida, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Census-designated place
Cocoa West
June Park
Merritt Island
Micco
Mims
Port St. John
Sharpes
South Patrick Shores
Deserted settlement
Mayacas
Inhabited place
Allenhurst
Aurantia
Aurora
Ballard Pines
Bellwood
Canaveral Acres
Canaveral
Canova Beach
Cape Canaveral
City Point
Cocoa Beach
Cocoa
Delespine
Dummit Grove
East Mims
Evans Pines
Floridana Beach
Frontenac
Grant
Indialantic
Indian Harbour Beach
Jay Jay
La Grange
Malabar
Melbourne Beach
Melbourne Shores
Melbourne Village
Melbourne
Orsino
Palm Bay
Palm Shores
Pineda
Rockledge
Rockwell
Satellite Beach
Scottsmoor
Sherman Park
South Cocoa Beach
South Titusville
Southmere
Titusville
Tropic
Turnbull
Valkaria
West Eau Gallie
West Melbourne
Williams Point
Wilson
Unknown
Eau Gallie
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Brevard County is located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020, the population was 606,392, making it the 10th most populated county in Florida. The official county seat has been located in Titusville since 1894. Brevard County comprises the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located along the east Florida coast and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.

With an economy strongly influenced by the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County is also known as the Space Coast. As such, it was designated with the telephone area code 321, as in "3, 2, 1 liftoff". The county is named after Theodore Washington Brevard, an early Florida settler and state comptroller.

A secondary center of county administrative offices was built beginning in 1989 in Viera, Florida, a master planned community in an unincorporated area. The county offices were developed to serve the more populous southern part of the long county.

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History

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The prehistory of Brevard County begins with the native cultures living in the area for thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century. The Windover Archeological Site, discovered in 1982, was found during excavation to have the largest collection of human remains and artifacts of the early Archaic Period (6,000-5,000 BCE), or more than 8,000 years before present. It has been designated as a National Historic Landmark.

The geographic boundaries of the county have changed significantly since its founding by European Americans in the 19th century. The county is named for Judge Theodore W. Brevard, an early settler and state comptroller.

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1844 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1850 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1868 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1871 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1877 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1879 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1910 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1930 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1850 139
1860 246
1870 1,216
1880 1,478
1890 3,401
1900 5,158
1910 4,717
1920 8,505
1930 13,283
1940 16,142
1950 23,653
1960 111,435
1970 230,006
1980 272,959
1990 398,978

Note: originally named St. Lucie; renamed Brevard in 1855. The current St. Lucie County was created in 1905.

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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Brevard County, Florida, United States

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