Eau Gallie, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Melbourne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32935. It stands on Elbow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eau Gallie quadrangle.
Then and now
1949 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Eau Gallie
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
James Wadsworth Rossetter Houselisted 2005 · 0.3 miles away
William H. Gleason Houselisted 1997 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1949 USGS Eau Gallie quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1951 USGS Eau Gallie quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Cape Canaveral quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
139 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Eau Gallie between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,843 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 21 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Natural | 19 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | SUGAR PINE (5) |
| 22 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 2004 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | POWER LINE (05) |
| 16 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Florida Forest Service | SARNO (05) |
| 21 August 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eau Gallie: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne-Palm Bay Placer | Titanium-Heavy Minerals | Producer | Staurolite, Kyanite, Zircon, Rutile, Leucoxene, Ilmenite |
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eau Gallie in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Eau Gallie | - | Surveys determined that a brief EF-0 tornado occurred shortly before 6:00 PM EDT, which was on the ground for approximately 4 minutes. The preliminary width of the tornado was 75 yards with a total path length of 1.1 miles.||The tornado touched down near Adams Avenue and moved south-southeast toward Sarno Road. In this area, multiple homes experienced carport, roof, siding, and soffit damage. Several trees were uprooted or partially uprooted, large tree branches|were scattered, and a few power poles were snapped. As the tornado moved south of Sarno Road into the Ixora Park neighborhood, it continued to produce sporadic damage to trees, fences, and collapsed a pool enclosure at one home. The tornado went through a wooded area on the north side of Melbourne Airport affecting trees|and a few hangars before dissipating. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Eau Gallie | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Tropic | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Indian Harbour Beach | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Canova Beach | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Aurora | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Sherman Park | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Melbourne | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Mobiland by the Sea | 3.6 miles | 15 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Eau Gallie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5331447 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294332. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






