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Satellite 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. 11,226 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Satellite 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 Satellite Beach, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Satellite Beach, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Satellite Beach grew from 10,109 to 11,226 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
201010,109
202011,226+1,117 (+11%)

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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Satellite Beach between 1993 and 2019, burning about 689 acres in total. 9 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 use14
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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)
27 July 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 1997Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2000Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Satellite Beach in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSatellite Beach$10,000Thunderstorm wind blew down power lines and damaged the roof of a house.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSatellite Beach$10,000Thunderstorm wind blew down power lines and damaged the roof of a house.
January 2019Thunderstorm WindSatellite Beach$2,000Strong wind gusts, estimated at 50-55 mph affected Lansing Island and the nearby Kiwi Tennis Club in Indian Harbour Beach as a broken squall line rapidly advanced across the barrier island. Several tiles were removed from a house on Lansing Island and the wind toppled and bent metal fence poles at the tennis club.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindSatellite Beach-Tempest station at Dorset Lane reported a wind gust of 50 knots.
June 2012HailSatellite Beach-A citizen reported penny sized hail north of Post Road and just west of US Highway 1 in Melbourne as a strong thunderstorm moved overhead.
July 2006Funnel CloudSatellite Beach-The public reported a funnel cloud north of Satellite Beach.
April 2003HailSatellite 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
South Patrick1.6 miles12
Tropic1.6 miles12
Indian Harbour Beach1.9 miles12
South Patrick Shores2.1 miles12
Canova Beach2.6 miles12
Sherman Park3.1 miles15
Mobiland by the Sea3.3 miles15
Palm Shores3.4 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 Satellite BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2107439The 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 290694. 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.