Brevard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the population is 536,521. Influenced by the presence of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County is also known as the Space Coast.
The official county seat has been located in Titusville since 1894, although most of the county's administration is performed from Viera. Brevard County has more tha...
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Brevard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the population is 536,521. Influenced by the presence of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County is also known as the Space Coast.
The official county seat has been located in Titusville since 1894, although most of the county's administration is performed from Viera. Brevard County has more than one county courthouse and sheriff's office because of its elongated north-south county lines. Hence, government services are not centralized in one location, as they are in many American counties.
Humans have occupied the county for 12,000 years and the Ais inhabited Brevard when the Spanish explorers discovered the area. Juan Ponce de León is said to have arrived in Florida at the shores of the future county in 1513.
The last naval battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought off the shores of Cape Canaveral in 1783, between the USS...
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