Neptune Beach, Florida "Neptune Beach"
Neptune Beach, Florida City of Neptune Beach Images from top, left to right: Sunrise at the beach, City Hall, Beaches Town Center, Jaguar statue in the Beaches Town Center, Duncan U.
Images from top, left to right: Sunrise at the beach, City Hall, Beaches Town Center, Jaguar statue in the Beaches Town Center, Duncan U.
Location in Duval County and the state of Florida Website City of Neptune Beach Neptune Beach is a beachfront town/city east of Jacksonville in Duval County, Florida, United States.
When the majority of Duval County communities merged with Jacksonville in 1968, Neptune Beach, along with Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Baldwin remained quasi-independent.
Like those other towns, it maintains its own municipal government but its inhabitants vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and are represented on the Jacksonville town/city council.
The populace was 7,037 at the 2010 census. Neptune Beach is part of the Jacksonville Beaches community.
Neptune Beach was originally part of Jacksonville Beach.
Through its development, the part of Jacksonville Beach north of 20th Avenue North was sparsely populated, with a brick road (First Street) connecting the more populated southern region with Atlantic Beach.
According to the best accepted story, the name "Neptune Beach" originated in 1922 with Dan G.
Wheeler had a home at what is now One Ocean Hotel (now in Atlantic Beach), and had to walk all the way home from Mayport each evening after taking the Florida East Coast Railway train home from work in Jacksonville.
A friend who worked for the barns informed Wheeler that if he had a station, the train would have to stop for him, so Wheeler assembled his own train station near his home and titled it Neptune.
Neptune seceded from Jacksonville Beach and incorporated as its own municipality in 1931, following a tax revolt.
The comparatively several inhabitants of the region were largely cut off from Jacksonville Beach town/city services such as police, fire, garbage collection, and road developments, though they paid taxes in equal share.
Neptune Beach is positioned at 30 19 00 N 81 24 11 WCoordinates: 30 19 00 N 81 24 11 W (30.316641, -81.403081). Neptune Beach is one of a several towns on San Pablo Island, which stretches through two counties (Duval and St.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Neptune Beach has a total region of 6.8 square miles (17.7 km2), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2) is territory and 4.5 square miles (11.7 km2) (65.96%) is water. Jacksonville Beaches a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Neptune Beach city, Florida".
Neptune Beach, Florida Geographic data related to Neptune Beach, Florida at Open - Street - Map Articles Relating to Neptune Beach and Duval County
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Cities in Duval County, Florida - Port metros/cities and suburbs of the United States Atlantic coast - Cities in Jacksonville urbane region - Cities in Florida - Populated coastal places in Florida on the Atlantic Ocean - Beaches of Duval County, Florida - Beaches of Florida
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