Merritt Island, Florida "Merritt Island"
Merritt Island, Florida Skyline of Merritt Island, Florida Location in Brevard County and the state of Florida Location in Brevard County and the state of Florida Merritt Island, Florida is positioned in the US Merritt Island, Florida - Merritt Island, Florida Merritt Island is a census-designated place in Brevard County, Florida, positioned on the easterly Floridian coast, along the Atlantic Ocean.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the populace was 34,743. It is part of the Palm Bay Melbourne Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The name "Merritt Island" also refers to the extent of the former island, which is now a peninsula.
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and NASA's John F.
Kennedy Space Center are positioned on the northern part of Merritt Island.
The central part of Merritt Island, previously known as Merritt City, is home to the majority of the populace and includes the small-town high school, library, and shopping district.
2.2 Places on Merritt Island Merritt Island owes its name to the king of Spain.
The entire island was part of a territory grant given by the king to a nobleman titled Merritt. Merritt Island is the prominent island on a color map he drew of the area, a copy of which is in the archives at the Library of Congress and the archives in Seville, Spain. In April 1788, French botanist Andre Michaux traveled in Merritt Island, near Cape Canaveral.
In 1837, Fort Ann was constructed on the east coast of Merritt Island, to protect the region against the Seminoles. Merritt Island's recent history dates back to the mid-19th century and centers on the expansion of citrus, stressing the cultivation of pineapples and oranges.
The island's populace interval in the 1950s and 1960s as the Space Race began and close-by NASA expanded.
To this day, the northern portion of the island remains slightly less developed, with a several areas remaining as cattle pasture or citrus land.
The small suburbs on the island vanished with the coming of the Space Age, and now only live on in the names of streets and historic churches.
Sea Ray directed a factory on Merritt Island from 1978 to 2012. At one time it working 1200 citizens . It closed the plant in 2013. South end of Merritt Island Merritt Island is a peninsula.
The assembly of the Crawlerway in the north (for NASA space vehicles to move to the launch pad over Banana Creek) connected Merritt Island to a mainland peninsula.
Merritt Island is still considered a natural island.
The east side of Merritt Island splits and is divided by Sykes Creek and Newfound Harbor.
To the west, the island is connected by causeways to mainland Brevard County near Titusville and Cocoa on its northern end, and in Melbourne on its southern end.
To the north, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, along with a narrow barrier island that make up Canaveral National Seashore, offer an unpopulated protected buffer region for rocket launches at Kennedy Space Center.
There are about 12,000 feral pigs in North Merritt Island.
Merritt Island has a several named communities, all unincorporated: The ethnic makeup of the CDP was 90.22% White, 5.31% African American, 0.41% Native American, 1.65% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.68% from other competitions, and 1.66% from two or more competitions.
With the lack of a municipal government, Merritt Island is left to the administrative care of the small-town county government, and the water and sewage (where available) are handled by the neighboring town/city of Cocoa.
There are light industrialized fabrication centers on the Merritt Island Airport, and NASA-related industrialized activities to support the space Shuttle, which was retired in summer of 2011, and other rocket launches on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Merritt Island has a redevelopment agency funded by the county. Merritt Island has a several schools including: Merritt Island High School Merritt Island Christian The Merritt Island Public Library, though a part of the Brevard County Library System, is a state-designated Special Library District.
Since Merritt Island is an unincorporated region of Brevard County, in 1965 the region applied for, and was designated, a special library precinct under Chapter 65-1289 by the Florida Legislature. In 2005, the Florida House of Representatives codified all special acts and amendments, in regards to the Merritt Island Public Library District, under HB 1079. The residentiary areas of Merritt Island, East and West Merritt Island, are only accessible by causeway or drawbridge at all points.
The island is linked by causeways, Florida 520.svg SR 520 (Merritt Island Causeway), Florida 404.svg, State Road 404 (Pineda Causeway), and Florida 528.svg SR 528, to the barrier island to its east and the mainland to the west.
Mathers Bridge joins the southernmost region to the barrier island.
Florida 3.svg SR 3, a 4-lane highway, joins the Kennedy Space Center for workers from the more densely populated central and southern sections of the island.
Merritt Island Airport is a enhance general aviation airport positioned on South Merritt Island and run by the Titusville-Cocoa (TICO) Airport Authority.
Hacienda del Sol, large historic agricultural estate on South Merritt Island (home still exists, property is now a private estate) Merritt Island Airport Merritt Island (Canaveral) Barge Canal Merritt Island Dragon, finished by vandalism, neglect and time Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Merritt Island Rotary Park Nature Trail and Center Pine Island Conservation Area.
He established Merritt Island's Temple Israel. Padrick, Navy journalist and actor, born on Merritt Island List of Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island launch sites "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Merritt Island CDP, Florida".
Images of America, Merritt Island and Cocoa Beach.
Merritt Island Public Library: Alpha Theta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Merritt Island CDP, Florida".
"Air Liquide America, Merritt Island FL 32953".
"Kiwanis Island Park".
Florida Today January 7, 2012, "Brevard brothers territory second season for their Western TV saga" Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island launch sites Municipalities and communities of Brevard County, Florida, United States
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Census-designated places in Brevard County, Florida - Merritt Island, Florida - Landforms of Brevard County, Florida - Census-designated places in Florida - Populated places on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida - Former islands of the United States - Peninsulas of Florida
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