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One of 41 National Register listings published here for Brevard County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Cocoa Post Office
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 435 Brevard Ave., Cocoa, 32922
- When was it listed? April 2019
- Category. building
- Also known as. Florida's New Deal Resources MPS
- Census division. Cocoa-Rockledge
- National Register reference number. 100003582 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1949 to 1981The ground this property stands on, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
204 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Cocoa Post Office between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,787 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 42 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 | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | BELLVIEW (05) |
| 8 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 130 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.1 acres | Florida Forest Service | SAILBOAT (O5) |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cocoa Post Office: 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pluckeybaum Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rockledge Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| W W G Asphalt Company, Inc. - Arabeth | Clay | Producer | ||
| W W G Asphalt Company, Inc. - Aredurable Mining | Clay | Producer | ||
| Wwg Asphalt Company, Inc. - Arabeth Mine | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Wwg Asphalt Company, Inc. - Aredurable Mining Mine | Clay | Unknown |
Storms near this property
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cocoa, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 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 2005 | Flash Flood | Cocoa | $1,000,000 | From 10 to 12 inches of rain fell over Cocoa during Hurricane Wilma flooding as many as 200 homes. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Cocoa | $450,000 | A rain band associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle moving north along the Intracoastal Waterway moved onshore in the old downtown area of Cocoa. The tornado move northwest about 1.7 miles severely damaging the roof of a gas distributor, a bus station and two houses. The tornado damaged 6 mobile homes and blew out many windows. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa | $25,000 | Thunderstorm downburst winds blew down trees and power lines that damaged a car in Cocoa. Winds also damaged the car barrier at the Port Canaveral draw bridge. An air conditioner unit was damaged on the roof of Parish Medical Center in Cape Canaveral. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Cocoa. |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | West Cocoa | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Cocoa | - | The public reported nickel size hail and an estimated wind gust of 60 mph at the intersection of State Road 520 and US Highway 1. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Cocoa | - | Nickel size hail was reported. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Cocoa | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in the Cocoa and Rockledge areas. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa | - | Thunderstorm winds blew out windows in a store in Cocoa. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees in the Cocoa and Rockledge area. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Cocoa and northwest of Cocoa along Interstate 95. |
| May 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Cocoa | - | A funnel cloud was reported by local police in Cocoa. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Cocoa. |
| April 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Cocoa | - | A funnel cloud was sighted over Cocoa. |
| April 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Cocoa | - | A funnel cloud was sighted over Cocoa. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Cocoa | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1949 USGS Cocoa quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Cocoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Cocoa quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Cape Canaveral quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Aladdin Theater | 0.1 miles | 1991 |
 | Porcher House | 0.6 miles | 1986 |
 | Cocoa Junior High School | 0.8 miles | 2019 |
 | Valencia Subdivision Residential District | 1.2 miles | 1992 |
 | Rockledge Drive Residential District | 1.3 miles | 1992 |
 | Barton Avenue Residential District | 1.8 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003582 in Record Group 79. |
| Brevard County | All 41 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.