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Brevard County is located on Central Florida's East Coast. It is bounded by the St. Johns River plain on the west and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Strongly influenced by the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County is also known as the Space Coast and was designated with the telephone area code 321, as in 3-2-1 liftoff.

Brevard County Seal

In 1982, Brevard construction workers at Windover Farms uncovered a human burial ground over 8000yrs old.^[1] The Florida Legislature established Brevard County in 1854. The county is named after Theodore Washington Brevard, an early Florida settler and state comptroller.^[2] As of the 2010 census, the population was 543,376, making it the 10th most populated county in Florida.^[3]

72 mile long Brevard County has a total area of 1,557 square miles (4,030 km2), of which 1,016 square miles (2,630 km2) is land and 541 square miles (1,400 km2) (34.8%) is water.^[4] Most of Brevard's water is the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Johns River, and the Indian River Lagoon Estuary. The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is the nation's navigational channel through Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River in Brevard County. Dredging for the 10-12ft deep Intracoastal Waterway created 41 spoil islands in the Brevard portion of the Indian River.^[5]

Brevard County government has historically labeled the Atlantic beach areas differently; North Reach includes 9.4 miles (15.1 km) in Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach; Patrick Air Force Base beach is 4.1 miles (6.6 km); Mid Reach includes the 7.6 miles (12.2 km) in Satellite Beach; South Reach includes the 3.8 miles (6.1 km) in Indialantic and Melbourne Beach; South Beaches includes 14.5 miles (23.3 km) south of Melbourne Beach to Sebastian.^[6]

Brevard County Logo

There are 250 square miles (650 km2) of federally protected wildlife refuges in Brevard County. These lands include Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Canaveral National Seashore, St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge, Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, St. Johns River Water Management District conservation areas, Brevard Environmentally Endangered Lands, and Florida's Outstanding Florida Water aquatic preserves.

Containing 71% of the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary, and almost 50% of it's length^[7], Brevard County is home to the entire Banana River, most of Mosquito Lagoon, and the North and Central zones of the Indian River. On November 8th, 2016 Brevard County residents voted to collect a .5% sales tax to fund it's Save Our Indian River Lagoon restoration program.

See Also: Brevard County - Indian River Lagoon Encyclopedia Article

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