Titusville, Florida Titusville, Florida City City of Titusville Official seal of Titusville, Florida state of Florida state of Florida State Florida Incorporated (city) 1887; 130 years ago City Manager Scott Larese Titusville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Brevard County, Florida, United States. The city's populace was 43,761 at the 2010 United States Census. Titusville is on the Indian River, west of Merritt Island and the Kennedy Space Center and south-southwest of the Canaveral National Seashore.
It is a principal town/city of the Palm Bay Melbourne Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
4.1 City council 4.2 City manager The United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821.
Titus won the game, and Sand Point became Titusville in 1873. The town/city was incorporated in 1887, the year assembly began on St.
At one point, Titusville was nicknamed "The City of Churches".
Henry Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railroad south from Daytona, with the station assembled in Titusville in 1892.
The association with the space program led to the city's two nicknames in the 1960s: Space City USA and Miracle City.
Miracle City Mall opened in 1968.
It was presented in Titusville until September 1989, when operations were moved to New York City in a joint venture between Patch Communications of Titusville and Ziff Davis.
Max Brewer Bridge, a 65 feet (20 m) fixed high-level span on SR-406 connecting Titusville to Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Canaveral National Seashore, opened on February 5, 2011 to replace the former swing bridge assembled in 1949.
In May 2012, the Brevard County School Board closed Riverview Elementary School for budgetary reasons.
In January 2013, Miracle City Mall closed, a victim of a declining small-town economy after the termination of the Space Shuttle in 2012, the shift of the populace center of the county to the south, and changing shopping habits. Demolition of Miracle City Mall occurred February 2015 for the assembly of a mixed-use outside shopping complex called Miracle City Towne Centre.
Titusville is positioned at 28 35 28 N 80 49 12 W (28.591210, -80.819911) in the northern half of Brevard County.
According to the US Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 34.2 square miles (88.7 km2).
29.4 square miles (76.1 km2) of it is land, and 4.9 square miles (12.7 km2) of it (14.26 percent) is water. Titusville is positioned on the Indian River Lagoon, part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
Titusville has as the rest of central Florida a very warm humid subtropical climate with momentous influence from the tropics, although the cooler winter lows than farther south separates it from the classification.
Climate data for Titusville, Florida As of the census of 2000, there were 40,670 citizens , 17,200 homeholds, and 11,094 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 83.80 percent White, 12.64 percent African American, 0.39 percent Native American, 0.94 percent Asian, 0.04 percent Pacific Islander, 0.73 percent from other competitions, and 1.46 percent from two or more competitions.
There were 17,200 homeholds out of which 26.7 percent had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.9 percent were married couples living together, 12.6 percent had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 35.5 percent were non-families.
29.9 percent of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 13.9 percent had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.9 percent under the age of 18, 6.9 percent from 18 to 24, 26.2 percent from 25 to 44, 23.2 percent from 45 to 64, and 20.8 percent who were 65 years of age or older.
See also: List of mayors of Titusville, Florida The propel town/city council serves as the city's legislative branch, while the appointed town/city manager carries out policies defined by the council.
The town/city is governed as stated to its Charter, adopted on June 3, 1963. Titusville has the highest town/city tax rate in the county. In 2007, the town/city had a taxable real estate base of $2.34 billion. The town/city has 1.8 police officers per thousand residents.
This is 52% below average statewide for metros/cities of its size. A 2011 study rated the pension fund for town/city employees as mediocre or poor. City council Titusville's five town/city council members (one of whom is the mayor) are propel at-large to four-year, staggered terms.
As the city's legislative body, the council determines all municipal policies not explicitly veiled by the town/city charter or state legislation.
The mayor presides over all town/city council meetings and votes as a council member.
The mayor is the recognized head of town/city government for ceremonial and military law purposes, but has no regular administrative duties.
City manager The town/city manager is chosen by the town/city council on the basis of training, experience and ability, and serves at the pleasure of the council for an indefinite reconstructionof time.
The town/city manager is tasked with enforcing all laws and ordinances, appointing and removing department heads and employees, supervising all departments, keeping the council advised on the city's financial situation, keeping the council and enhance informed of the town/city government's operations. City manager: Scott Larese In 2010, private company was 24.7 percent "other"; 21.5 percent trade, transit and utilities, 18.1 percent experienced and company services; 13.7 percent educational and community services; 12 percent construction; and 10 percent leisure and hospitality. The economy shrunk after lay-offs involving the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, since many employees live in Titusville.
In 2000, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $35,607, and the median income for a family was $42,453.
The per capita income for the town/city was $18,901.
About 9.3 percent of families and 12.4 percent of the populace were below the poverty line, including 17.6 percent of those under age 18 and 6.8 percent of those age 65 or over.
Many of Titusville's primary employers are aerospace companies. Knight's Armament Company in Titusville is believed to be the state's biggest manufacturer of small arms. Parrish Medical Center, positioned in Titusville, is the city's biggest employer.
The city's chief interest is transient travelers.
The town/city has benefited from tourism associated with the space program, and the TICO Warbird Air Show each March draws about 40,000 50,000 visitors. While 47 miles (76 km) from the event, the town/city gets a substantial economic effect from bikers on their way to the annual Daytona Beach Bike Week. The unemployment rate was 3.6% in 2000 and 2005. In 2007, the average size of Titusville's workforce force was 20,716.
Of that group, 19,879 were working and 837 were unemployed, for an unemployment rate of 4 percent. In December 2010, the town/city had the highest unemployment in the county, 13.8 percent. The town/city issued 292 permits for 360 units in 2006. They are positioned in the city's shopping precinct at the southern end of the city, near the intersection of State Road 405 (Florida) and State Road 50 (Florida).
The Titusville Public Library was one of the first of five enhance libraries in Brevard County, Florida, and was initially called the North Brevard Library.
The North Brevard Public Library can trace its beginnings to June 5, 1900 when the first library was formed in Titusville by the Progressive Culture Club.
This was the former name of the Woman's Club of Titusville.
The Titusville Library Association was formed later and the library really started in 1902 with 200 volumes. Originally, the North Brevard Library was positioned in the new Club building on the second floor, and was only open twice a week in the afternoons.
As of 2017, The Titusville Public Library is one of the several libraries in the county that is open seven days a week, with operating hours as follows: The Titusville Public Library provides a plethora of adult programs such as gentle yoga, coloring club, two book clubs, an i - OS and Android class, a Pinterest class, a conversation Spanish club, a soap making class, a polymer clay class, etc.
The town/city owned water utility primarily gets its waterworks from the Florida's surficial aquifer, a shallow, unconfined aquifer that overlays the larger Floridan aquifer.
In 2005, about 3.8 million gallons per day of raw water were drawn from the city's two wellfields. The water department had 22,000 customers in 2010. Space Coast Regional Airport (commercial aviation), positioned just south of the town/city Titusville is served by SCAT's #1, #2, and #5 routes. Titusville was a prominent vantage point for Space Shuttle launches (STS-126, 2008).
It was estimated in 2007 that 88.1 percent of all Titusville inhabitants 25 years or older are high school graduates, and 23.6 percent have a bachelor's degree or higher. Primary and secondary enhance schools are run by the Brevard County School Board: Titusville High School Eastern Florida State College Titusville Star-Advocate began printed announcement in 1920 when the East Coast Advocate and Indian River Chronicle consolidated with the Indian River Star; bought by Henry Hudson in 1925; became Brevard's first daily journal in 1965; the Star-Advocate was sold by Henry Hudson and his son Bob Hudson to Gannett Company in 1965.
Daily printed announcement (Monday to Friday) ceased after January 31, 1975 when the Star-Advocate was changed to a weekly small-town insert for Titusville inhabitants in Gannett's Florida Today starting Wednesday, February 5, 1975.
The North Brevard Beacon biweekly journal based in Titusville that served the communities of North Brevard; printed announcement started November 5, 2003; ceased printed announcement after March 4, 2010.
The News Observer of North Brevard semiweekly journal based in Titusville; ceased printed announcement September 4, 2003 after 15 years.
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