Satellite Beach, Florida Satellite Beach, Florida City of Satellite Beach Location in Brevard County and the state of Florida Location in Brevard County and the state of Florida State Florida Satellite Beach is a coastal town/city situated in Brevard County, Florida.
The populace was 10,109 at the 2010 United States Census, and it is positioned with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Indian River to the west.
Satellite Beach is part of the Palm Bay Melbourne Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Satellite Beach is positioned at 28 10 24 N 80 35 48 W (28.173441, -80.596674). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.3 square miles (11.1 km2).
With both ocean and river frontage, the town/city is the biggest beachside improve in South Brevard County. There are 7.7 miles (12.4 km) of shoreline in the City, including 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of Atlantic Ocean beach, 1.3 miles (2.1 km) of Banana River shoreline, and 3.6 miles (5.8 km) of shoreline fronting navigable canals connected to the Banana River. Satellite Beach is positioned in the region where tropical and temperate climatic zones overlap.
A study commissioned by NASA lends credence to the perception that Satellite Beach is positioned in a portion of the North American Atlantic shoreline with a reduced incidence of catastrophic hurricanes. Extremes range from 24 F ( 4 C) on December 24, 1989 to 99 F (37 C) on July 15, 1981. Climate data for Satellite Beach (Patrick Air Force Base, 1945-2015) 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 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. At the same time, the infrequency and mildness of freezes in the Central Florida region serves to define the southern limit of many plants found in temperate zones.
Thus, the barrier island in the vicinity of Satellite Beach represents a unique climatological region which sustains unique surroundings characterized by different tropical and temperate plant species, in addition to a momentous number of endemic species only found in the small-town region. There are plant species which now expanded naturally, or were present before to development, inside the boundaries of Satellite Beach. Vegetated sand dunes are found along most of the beach's length and furnish the primary defense against storm affairs.
Native plant species found on the dunes include sea oats, Sabal palmetto, sea grape, barns vine, dollar weed, coral bean, Spanish bayonet, wax myrtle, yaupon holly, and a several grass species.
More salt-tolerant and wind-tolerant species, such as sea oats and barns vine, are found dominantly on the ocean side of the dune, while other dune vegetation species do not generally show such zonation.
There are approximately 10 acres (4.0 ha) of coquina modern outcrops incessantly exposed along the low-tide line of the city's ocean beach.
On the city'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.
Satellite Beach, Florida In 1994, Satellite Beach was awarded the first annual Florida Excellence in Coastal Management Award.[clarification needed] The town/city continued to precarious its oceanfront.
Xeric scrub around the small-town county library, until the late 1990s, hosted a family of threatened Florida scrub jays.
In 2011, the town/city became one of a several areas in the United States participating in an initiative to install solar panels on municipal buildings. The town/city and FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation) have entered into a Joint Participation Agreement to fund landscaping along the South Patrick Drive corridor in the city.
In July 2013, State Representative John Tobia received permission to build a beach home on Shell Street in Satellite Beach.
In 2013, the town/city announced that it will undertake $36 million worth of work to restore beach areas and dunes along the coast, to areas battered by hurricanes in 2004.
The universal is financially supported by Brevard County and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The annual Ocean, Reef and Beach Festival is organized by the Surfrider Foundation, Pure Ocean TV Productions and Anglers for Conservation. Boats will assemble at sunset at the north end of Satellite Beach's Grand Canal and travel south, circle Lake Shepherd, and continue to Mathers Bridge. The City's Public Works Department announced plans to make segment repairs to an array of walkways in early 2014. The Public Works Department plans to continue to advancement beach access and infrastructure.
In 2013, Hightower Beach Park was renovated by a improve partnership with Montecito Community Development District and state funds from the Florida Preservation 2000 and Florida Land and Water grant programs. The 15 acres (6.1 ha) park contains the natural dune fitness and has a boardwalk along the coastline.
RC's Beach and Buccaneer Beach are titled for a former Royal Castle hamburger kiosk and the Buccaneer Condos, in the order given.
Pelican Beach Park was renovated in 2007. During the summer months, the Sea Turtle Preservation Society conducts weekly sea turtle tours.
The Satellite Beach Sports and Recreation Park contains 35 acres (14 ha).
Gemini Beach Park is a 2 acres (0.81 ha) park nestled between Ellwood and Park Avenue and contains dunes, sea turtles, and birdlife. Satellite Beach Technology Company designs and develops biometric security systems.
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