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Indian Harbour Beach, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Indialantic-Melbourne Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32937. The Survey maps it on the Tropic quadrangle. 9,019 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Indian Harbour Beach within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Indian Harbour Beach, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Indian Harbour Beach, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Indian Harbour Beach grew from 8,225 to 9,019 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20108,225
20209,019+794 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Indian Harbour Beach between 1992 and 2019, burning about 629 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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 use12
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2008Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHONEYBROOK (05)
5 July 2003Fireworks5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-12-1025 GENERAL AVIATION
24 July 1997Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2000Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Harbour Beach in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006LightningIndian Harbour Beach$2,000,000Lightning started a fire that destroyed a $2 million house.
March 2019HailIndian Harbour Beach-The public reported hail near or slightly larger than quarter inch in Satellite Beach, between 1700 and 1800 block of State Road A1A. Occurred starting around 0840 LST, lasting for 10 to 15 minutes.
March 2019HailIndian Harbour Beach-A trained weather spotter observed one inch hail in Indian Harbour Beach.
April 2013Funnel CloudIndian Harbour Beach-Public reports indicate that a funnel cloud formed over the Atlantic, then moved over the barrier island at Indian Harbour Beach. The observers reported that the funnel cloud dissipated and reformed three times over a 10-minute period, but did not touch down.
June 2012HailIndian Harbour Beach-A SKYWARN spotter observed nickel sized hail as two strong thunderstorms merged together near Indian Harbour Beach.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindIndian Harbour Beach-Trees downed onto road near 11000 block of South Tropical Trail on Merritt Island.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindIndian Harbour Beach-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree branches and a basketball goal.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindIndian Harbour Beach-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Indian Harbor Beach.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindIndian Harbour Beach-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Indian Harbour Beach.
June 1996Funnel CloudIndian Harbour Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brevard County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Canova Beach0.8 miles12
Tropic1.8 miles12
Satellite Beach1.9 miles12
Eau Gallie2.6 miles15
South Patrick3.5 miles12
Sherman Park3.6 miles15
South Patrick Shores3.8 miles12
Mobiland by the Sea4.0 miles15

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 Indian Harbour BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994766The 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 284502. 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.

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.