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.
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.


Population over time
2 figuresIndian 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,225 | |
| 2020 | 9,019 | +794 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Tropic quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Tropic 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
37 since 1992Regional 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 use | 12 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
| 22 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2008 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HONEYBROOK (05) |
| 5 July 2003 | Fireworks | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2003-12-1025 GENERAL AVIATION |
| 24 July 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2000 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Lightning | Indian Harbour Beach | $2,000,000 | Lightning started a fire that destroyed a $2 million house. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Indian 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 2019 | Hail | Indian Harbour Beach | - | A trained weather spotter observed one inch hail in Indian Harbour Beach. |
| April 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Indian 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 2012 | Hail | Indian Harbour Beach | - | A SKYWARN spotter observed nickel sized hail as two strong thunderstorms merged together near Indian Harbour Beach. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indian Harbour Beach | - | Trees downed onto road near 11000 block of South Tropical Trail on Merritt Island. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indian Harbour Beach | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree branches and a basketball goal. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indian Harbour Beach | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Indian Harbor Beach. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indian Harbour Beach | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Indian Harbour Beach. |
| June 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Indian Harbour Beach | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canova Beach | 0.8 miles | 12 | |
| Tropic | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Satellite Beach | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Eau Gallie | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| South Patrick | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Sherman Park | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| South Patrick Shores | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Mobiland by the Sea | 4.0 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 Indian Harbour Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q994766 | 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 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.






