Indian Harbour Beach, Florida Indian Harbour Beach, Florida City of Indian Harbour Beach Indian Harbour Beach Skyline Indian Harbour Beach Skyline Official seal of Indian Harbour Beach, Florida Location in Brevard County and the state of Florida Location in Brevard County and the state of Florida Indian Harbour Beach S Indian Harbour Beach is a town/city in Brevard County, Florida.
The populace was 8,225 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the Palm Bay Melbourne Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the town of Indialantic and south of Satellite Beach.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2).
Indian Harbour Beach is positioned in the region where tropical and temperate climatic zones interface.
Daytime temperatures average 90 F (32 C) in the summer months and 72 F (22 C) in the winter months. A study commissioned by NASA lends credence to the notion that Indian Harbour Beach is positioned in a portion of the North American Atlantic shoreline with a uniquely reduced incidence of catastrophic hurricanes. Threatened Atlantic loggerhead sea turtles nest on the city's ocean beaches at densities of approximately one nest per 10 feet (3.0 m) of shoreline per year.
Endangered green sea turtles deposit an average of tens[clarification needed] of nests along the city's ocean beach each year.
Endangered West Indian manatees incessant the city's canals and the Banana River.
The town/city established Samsons Island Nature Park, the only gopher tortoise relocation recipient site on the barrier island.
The town/city has erected five osprey nesting platforms on Samsons Island Nature Park, from which young have been fledged.
The town/city is working with faculty of the Florida Institute of Technology to promote graduate student research and class projects on Samsons Island Nature Park and to assist in devising and implementing maintenance programs to preserve and movement desirable wildlife surroundings. There are plant species, both indigenous and imported. Vegetated sand dunes are found along most of the beach's length and furnish the primary defense against storm affairs in the region.
There are approximately 10 acres (4.0 ha) of coquina modern outcrops incessantly exposed along the low-tide line of Indian Harbour's ocean beach.
On the Indian Harbour's ocean beach can be found fossil Atlantic ghost crabs, the remnants of a unique set of geological circumstances which preserved these creatures when they died in their burrows perhaps about 110,000 years ago.
There are momentous deposits of sand, marl, coquina and possibly phosphate inside the limits of Indian Harbour Beach.
Merritt Island; Indian River Lagoon; Banana River; Melbourne West.svg The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.40% White, 0.93% African American, 0.28% Native American, 1.57% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.55% from other competitions, and 1.23% from two or more competitions.
The populace was distributed by age with 18.5% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 27.5% from 45 to 64, and 24.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Indian Harbour Beach was established on June 6, 1955, by W.
In 2013, along with Palm Beach and Sanibel, Indian Harbour Beach ranked among the top 3 places to live in Florida as stated to Area - Vibes livability score. The Indian Harbour Beach Recreation Center is positioned in 27 acres (11 ha) Gleason Park on the corner of South Patrick Drive and Yacht Club Boulevard.
Also positioned in the park is the City's heated competition-size swimming pool open seven days a week year-round, shuffleboard courts, two playgrounds, a walking/exercise trail and picnic facilities. Other town/city ball fields are positioned next to Ocean Breeze School and serve minor Little League squads as well as T-ball participants.
Sunrise at Indian Harbour Beach Park The National Weather Service has titled Indian Harbour Beach the first "tsunami-ready" town/city in Florida. "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Indian Harbour Beach city, Florida".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Melbourne, Florida: Florida Today.
"Indian Harbour Beach ranked 3 place to live in Florida".
The South Beaches Breeze.
Melbourne, Florida: Florida Today.
"Tim Wakefield's House in Indian Harbour Beach, FL".
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