The county government has historically labeled the beach areas differently. The North Reach includes 9. The Patrick Air Force Base beach is 4. The Mid Reach includes the 7. The South Reach includes the 3. The South Beaches include The American Indian Association of Florida submitted in October a proposal to name the island after the Ais people.
The Board of Geographic Names usually takes at least eight months to decide on a new name for a geographical feature. There are 16 municipalities. The largest by population is Palm Bay, the smallest Melbourne Village. This means a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers.
There are distinct wet and dry seasons. The dry lasts from December through May, the wet from June through November. During the dry season, periods of drought often occur, and can lead to a persistent and high wild land fire threat. In numerous instances these fires have caused property damage. In one case several fires in forced the evacuation of Bayside Highschool In the town of Palm Bay. In this particular event homes were damaged. January is the coldest month, with an average low of The driest month is April with 1.
Florida is a large subtropical state that experiences hurricanes. Although Brevard county is located along Florida's eastern peninsula, it is less frequently impacted by direct hurricane landfalls than portions of the Panhandle or South Florida. There are two predominant reasons for this. First, westward moving tropical systems often reach an atmospheric ridge weakness in the Bermuda High by the time they approach Florida at a latitude as northerly as Brevard County. Combined with frontal systems that exit the United States' East Coast , many of these tropical systems are steered northwest and eventually curve northward offshore along Florida's East Central Coast.
A second reason is that hurricanes landfalling along the Florida peninsula Gulf Coast often weaken to a tropical storm by the time they move northeast to affect Brevard County with some exceptions, such as 's Charley.
No major hurricane, defined as category 3 or higher, has ever struck Brevard since , the beginning of recorded climate. Although Brevardians may refer to past storms as "hurricanes", by the time they strike there, some of them may have subsided to tropical storms or depressions. Because of the threat of storm surge , the beach community on the barrier island is often required to evacuate well in advance of the storm.
The possibility of storm surge is diminished when the storm comes across the state instead of from the Atlantic. Tornado -like eddies spinning off from even small storms can result in severe damage in small areas. Generally, summertime tornadoes are brief, are at the EF0 or EF1 level, and may not actually touch down. During the dry season , they can attain a force of EF2 and touch the ground for miles.
While tornadoes in the Midwest are more severe, a higher rate of deaths are experienced in Florida, and Brevard County, specifically, due to higher population density and quantity of manufactured homes. Five hurricanes have directly affected Brevard since David September 3, ; Erin August 2, — made landfall near Sebastian Inlet and caused mostly minor wind damage and more extensive flooding countywide; Charley August 13, — caused damage in Titusville and North Brevard; Frances September 3, — struck neighboring Vero Beach in Indian River County directly and caused widespread wind damage throughout Brevard; and Jeanne September 26, — struck Vero Beach directly, following very nearly the same path as Frances.
Slightly more than half of one percent 0. The following storms did not affect Brevard County with hurricane-force winds: Floyd September 15, , and Irene October 16, Tropical Storm Fay dropped a record rainfall of Brevard County works together with the federal and state government to control pollution and preserve wetlands and coastal areas through lands dedicated to conservation and wildlife protection. There are square miles km 2 of federally protected wildlife refuges.
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Restaurants Whatever you are craving, Brevard County restaurants can satisfy your hunger. Cultural Centers Are you looking for something fun to do? Image File. In , during the era of cracker cattlemen, one of the most famous feuds in the state was spawned. The area then was known as Crane Creek, but it was later named Melbourne for a new resident from Australia, C. Hector became an investor, hotel and store owner and county commissioner. Just minutes later, Titusville was incorporated.
Gradually, the borders of Brevard County were shifted northward and squeezed eastward. The portions of Brevard County in present-day Broward and Palm Beach counties were given to Dade County, western areas of the county were given to Polk and Osceola County, and parts of Volusia and Orange Counties were given to Brevard, including the eventual county seat of Titusville.
Osceola was organized and claimed the western part of Brevard in , creating a much narrower county. The Indian River Lagoon was heavily traveled by steamboats that sailed near the banks, where hotels and small towns continued to pop up. It quickly developed through the county reaching the Eau Gallie area by June By the end of it had reached Fort Pierce.
This, in turn, changed Brevard from a sleepy county with hotels and wharfs to one of growth, development and industry.
Fishing was a big commercial industry along the lagoon system so to pack fish, salt it, get it on boats and have it shipped out was key to the development. And then later citrus took over. Brevard , Florida Comptroller at the time of the county's creation. In the decades after it was first established, the boundaries of Brevard County were amended several times.
It took on its current shape in The earliest inhabitants of the Indian River region now called Brevard County were Native Americans who ventured into the area perhaps as long as 12, years ago. The descendents of these people became more settled, and began societies based on living off the resources of the Indian River Lagoon, the St.
Johns River, and the surrounding coastal highlands and high points within the river basins. Known collectively as the archaic people, these are the humans who inhabited the Windover Archeological site in north Brevard County.
Still later, their descendants became diversified into distinct tribes, the Ais and the Timucua, which lived along the shores of the Indian River lagoon and left behind huge mounds of discarded shellfish, animal bones, and fractured pottery. These were the native peoples who were encountered by the first Europeans.
Many sites evidencing these first inhabitants remain scattered through our county and some have been well preserved on public lands. There are well-documented accounts of European shipwreck survivors traveling among the native tribes in this region, and the well known adventure of Jonathon Dickinson , who kept a journal.
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