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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.

Sharpes 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 Sharpes, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Sharpes, surveyed 1949

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Sharpes 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,411
20203,115-296 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

334 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural100
Arson/incendiarism66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony18
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks4
Other causes2

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
8 September 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2002Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCAROLE AVE (O5)
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kings Park PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brevard County

Storms near this place

11 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2025Flash FloodSharpes$1,920,000An 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 2008Thunderstorm WindSharpes$2,000Power lines were blown down on Citrus Boulevard. .
January 2025HailSharpes-An off duty NWS employee measured one inch hail and estimated 60 mph wind gusts near I-95 and SR-528.
April 2023HailSharpes-Public report of hail up to 1.25 inches near the Highway 528 and Industry Rd interchange.
March 2019HailSharpes-A trained weather spotter reported hail of 1.0 to 1.5 inches in diameter in the Canveral Groves area.
March 2018HailSharpes-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 2013Thunderstorm WindSharpes-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 2012Thunderstorm WindSharpes-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 2011Funnel CloudSharpes-A citizen reported a funnel cloud near the intersection of Highway 528 and Interstate 95 in Cocoa.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindSharpes-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 2004HailSharpes-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
Williams Point1.1 miles14
City Point1.8 miles14
Frontenac2.0 miles14
North Merritt Island2.8 miles13
Courtenay3.2 miles13
Cocoa3.3 miles13
Port Saint John3.4 miles14
Indianola3.5 miles13

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 SharpesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q606897The 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.