Titusville, Florida
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Titusville is a city in and the county seat of Brevard County, Florida, United States.[8] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 48,789, up from 43,761 at the 2010 census.[5] Titusville is located along the Indian River, west of Merritt Island and the Kennedy Space Center, and south-southwest of the Canaveral National Seashore. It is a principal city of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Titusville, Florida | |
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Nickname: "Miracle City"[1] | |
Motto: "Gateway To Nature And Space" | |
Coordinates: 28°35′28″N 80°49′12″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Florida |
County | Brevard |
Settled (Sand Point) | 1859-1873[2][3] |
Incorporated (city) | 1887; 137 years ago (1887) |
Founded by | Henry T. Titus |
Government | |
• Type | Council-Manager |
• Mayor | Daniel "Dan" E. Diesel |
• Vice Mayor | Joe C. Robinson |
• Council Members | Jo Lynn Nelson, Dr. Sarah Stoeckel, and Herman A. Cole, Jr. |
• City Manager | Scott Larese |
• City Clerk | Wanda Wells |
Area | |
• Total | 34.31 sq mi (88.87 km2) |
• Land | 29.22 sq mi (75.69 km2) |
• Water | 5.09 sq mi (13.18 km2) |
Elevation | 10 ft (3 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 48,789 |
• Density | 1,669.48/sq mi (644.59/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP codes | 32780-32783, 32796 |
Area code | 321 |
FIPS code | 12-71900[6] |
GNIS feature ID | 0292319[7] |
Website | titusville.com |
Near Titusville is the Windover Archeological Site, a National Historic Landmark recognizing its important collection of human remains and artifacts of the early Archaic Period (6,000 to 5,000 BC.)
A secondary, de facto county seat was established beginning in 1989, at Viera, Florida, in the geographic center of the county, to better serve the more populous southern portion of the county.