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City Point Community Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“The City Point Community Church is a historic church in Cocoa, Florida, United States. It is located at 3783 North Indian River Drive.”

Wikipedia article City Point Community Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Brevard County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3783 N. Indian River Dr., Cocoa, 32926
  • When was it listed? June 1995
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Cocoa-Rockledge
  • National Register reference number. 95000731 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering City Point Community Church, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet covering City Point Community Church, surveyed 1949

Fires near this property

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of City Point Community Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,344 acres in total. 94 started naturally. 63 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
Natural94
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony13
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Fireworks3
Other causes1

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 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeSTONE

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of City Point Community Church: 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 property

25 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2005Flash FloodCocoa$1,000,000From 10 to 12 inches of rain fell over Cocoa during Hurricane Wilma flooding as many as 200 homes.
September 2001Tornado (F1)Cocoa$450,000A 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 2001Thunderstorm WindCocoa$25,000Thunderstorm 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 1999Thunderstorm WindCocoa$20,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Cocoa.
June 1996Flash FloodWest Cocoa$20,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCocoa$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailCocoa-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 2008HailCocoa-Nickel size hail was reported.
April 2004HailCocoa-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in the Cocoa and Rockledge areas.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCocoa-Thunderstorm winds blew out windows in a store in Cocoa.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCocoa-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees in the Cocoa and Rockledge area.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindCocoa-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Cocoa and northwest of Cocoa along Interstate 95.
May 1998Funnel CloudCocoa-A funnel cloud was reported by local police in Cocoa.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindCocoa-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Cocoa.
April 1997Funnel CloudCocoa-A funnel cloud was sighted over Cocoa.
April 1997Funnel CloudCocoa-A funnel cloud was sighted over Cocoa.
April 2003HailCocoa-no account filed
March 2001HailCocoa-no account filed
March 2001HailCocoa-no account filed
August 2001HailCocoa-no account filed
May 1999HailCocoa-no account filed
April 1999HailCocoa-no account filed
June 1998HailCocoa-no account filed
February 1998HailCocoa-no account filed
June 1996HailCocoa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brevard County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Dr. George E. Hill House2.8 miles1994
J.R. Field Homestead2.8 miles1997
St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Old3.2 miles1990
Porcher House4.5 miles1986
Cocoa Junior High School4.8 miles2019
Aladdin Theater5.0 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000731 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brevard CountyAll 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.