Sharpes, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cocoa-Rockledge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32926. The Survey maps it on the Sharpes quadrangle. 3,115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 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.


On record in Sharpes
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
City Point Community Churchlisted 1995 · 0.8 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSharpes fell from 3,411 to 3,115 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 | 3,411 | |
| 2020 | 3,115 | -296 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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 Sharpes quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1951 USGS Sharpes 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
334 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 334 fires within 5 miles of Sharpes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,680 acres in total. 100 started naturally. 66 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 100 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 66 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 29 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | CAROLE AVE (O5) |
| 16 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 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 Sharpes: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Park Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharpes in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | Flash Flood | Sharpes | $1,920,000 | An additional stalled thunderstorm formed over Sharpes and Cocoa, where it produced approximately 6 to 8 inches of rainfall. A portion of US-1 just south of Port St John was washed out near Spring St, as well as multiple segments of Indian River Dr. between Blacks Rd. and City Point Rd. At least 60 homes and businesses were affected, with 50 reporting minor to major damage due to water entering structures. This was part of a rare, high-impact flood event that also impacted Tiusville, Mims, and north Merritt Island, with a 12-hour annual exceedance probability (AEP or the percent chance of an event occurring in any calendar year) between 0.5% and 0.2%, alternatively known as a 200 to 500-year rainfall event. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpes | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down on Citrus Boulevard. . |
| January 2025 | Hail | Sharpes | - | An off duty NWS employee measured one inch hail and estimated 60 mph wind gusts near I-95 and SR-528. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Sharpes | - | Public report of hail up to 1.25 inches near the Highway 528 and Industry Rd interchange. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Sharpes | - | A trained weather spotter reported hail of 1.0 to 1.5 inches in diameter in the Canveral Groves area. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Sharpes | - | A US Air Force meteorologist reported ping pong ball sized hail along Tangelo Avenue about 1/4 mile east of Interstate 95 in Canaveral Groves. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpes | - | Several homes within the Island Lakes Mobile Home Park on Merritt Island experinced minor to moderate damage. Damage was primarily confined to awnings, carports and pool enclosures. At least two homes experienced some roof damage and several homes were damaged by falling trees. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpes | - | U.S. Air Force Wind Tower 1000 at the Kennedy Space Center measured a 67 kt/77 mph wind gust as a severe thunderstorm occurred. |
| June 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Sharpes | - | A citizen reported a funnel cloud near the intersection of Highway 528 and Interstate 95 in Cocoa. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpes | - | A cluster of strong thunderstorms developed east of Orlando and moved toward the coast. As the storms reached the border of Brevard County, they intersected an inland moving sea breeze boundary and briefly intensified to severe levels. Winds blew off a piece of a roof from a home and damaged a fence on Pine Street in Canaveral Groves. Nearby, a power pole was blown down onto a tree, downing powerlines toward the ground. The damage was reported near the intersection of Scarlet Avenue and Pine Street. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Sharpes | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Point | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| City Point | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Frontenac | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| North Merritt Island | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Courtenay | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Cocoa | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Port Saint John | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Indianola | 3.5 miles | 13 |
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 Sharpes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q606897 | 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 290941. 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.






