Brevard County, Florida

Street maps, historic prints and keepsakes for 16 Brevard County towns.

The largest by population is Palm Bay (119,760).

About these towns

Cape Canaveral: After the establishment of a lighthouse in 1848, a few families moved into the area and a small but stable settlement was born.

Cocoa: Several stories circulate among Cocoa old timers as to how the town got its name. One story says that the mail used to come by river boat and was placed in an empty tin box labeled Baker's Cocoa.

Cocoa Beach: The first non-native settlement in the area was by a family of freed slaves following the American Civil War. In 1888, a group of men from Cocoa bought the entire tract of land, which went undeveloped until it was bought out in 1923 by a member of the group—Gus Edwards, Cocoa's city attorney.

Grant-Valkaria: Grant-Valkaria was incorporated as a town on July 25, 2006, by joining the two previously unincorporated communities of Grant and Valkaria. The ZIP code 32949 is solely within the Grant-Valkaria town limits, while portions of the 32950 and 32909 ZIP codes are part of the town as well.

Indialantic: From 1915 to 1917, Ernest Kouwenhoven, an immigrant from the Netherlands, bought the land that ultimately became Indialantic, settled in the area, named the community "Indialantic-By-The-Sea", and between 1919 to 1921, built a wooden bridge connecting Indialantic with Melbourne, the first bridge connecting Indialantic with Melbourne.

Indian Harbour Beach: Indian Harbour Beach is a coastal city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Malabar: It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Melbourne: Evidence for the presence of Paleo-Indians in the Melbourne area during the late Pleistocene epoch was uncovered during the 1920s. C. P.

Melbourne Beach: It has been suggested that Juan Ponce de León landed near Melbourne Beach in 1513, where he then became the first European to set foot in Florida.

Melbourne Village: Virginia Wood, Elizabeth Nutting, and Margaret Hutchinson came from Dayton, Ohio in 1947, following the end of World War II to the area of Melbourne, Florida.

Palm Bay: The earliest place names for this area on early maps of the late 1700s were Turkey Creek, Elbow Creek and Crane Creek.

Palm Shores: It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Rockledge: Rockledge was officially founded on August 7, 1887, making it the oldest incorporated municipality in Brevard County. The name Rockledge, attributed to Gardner S.

Satellite Beach: Satellite Beach became incorporated in 1957 by Percy L. Hedgecock and his brothers, B. D. (Shine) and Herbert (Hub) Hedgecock, along with cousins Jimmy Caudle and Dumont Smith.

Titusville: Indigenous peoples had inhabited the area for thousands of years, as shown by discovery in 1982 of the Windover Archeological Site, dating to the middle Archaic Period (6000 to 5000 BC).

West Melbourne: In 2005, the City of West Melbourne started charging property taxes for the first time in its existence (since 1959). Prior to 2005, the city survived on a "fees only" tax revenue system for its $17 million budget.

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Founding years, populations and town notes come from each town's Wikipedia and Wikidata entries. All Florida towns.