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Community Description
Short Description: Twenty-miles north of Melbourne, Cocoa bordering the Indian River to the east was settled in the 1860's. The first name request for the new community in 1882 was “Indian River City”. The US postal authorities rejected the name as too long for a postmark so the town's name was chosen from a shipment of Baker's cocoa delivered to the local store.
Local attractions include Port Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, Historic Cocoa Village with Travis Hardware (1920s), Cocoa Village Theater (1924), Porcher House, Brevard Museum and the Brevard Community College Planetarium.
Nearby communities include Cocoa West (1.5 miles), Rockledge (3 miles), Merritt Island (4 miles), Sharpes (5 miles), Port St. John (8 miles), Cocoa Beach (9.5 miles), Cape Canaveral (9.5 miles) and Palm Shores (13.5 miles).
Population: 16,610
Year of Incorporation: 1895
Location: East Central Florida
Median Home Price: $158,600
Tax Rate: 4.4068
Taxes Levied (per capita): $108.85
Total Area: 8.3 square miles
City Hall: City of Cocoa
603 Brevard Ave, PO Box 1750
Cocoa, FL 32922-1750
321.639.7555; 321.637.7203 Fax
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Chamber of Commerce: Cocoa Beach Area Chamber
400 Fortenberry Rd
Merritt Island, FL 32952-3592
321.459.2200; 321.459.2232 Fax
Email Contact
Library: Central Brevard Library
308 Forrest Ave
Cocoa, FL 32922
321.633.1792
Email Contact
BCC/UCF Joint-Use Library
1519 Clearlake Rd, Cocoa, FL 32922-6597
321.433.7662
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Cocoa Inquiry:
| Q. | My question is very important to me, please find out and let me know the answer. What time of the day was Sunset on JULY 8TH 2005? Thank you so very much for your assistance. Also where can I find a site that would tell me the time of sunsets. Lynne | | A. | The rising and the setting of the sun and the moon are valuable commodities, appreciated here in Florida, and many sites from thesunrisetimes.com to sunrissesunset.com will give you a variety of responses. To find a highly accurate source for sunsets in Cocoa, we went right to the professional leader, the US Naval Observatory. The Observatory says the Sunset on July 8th was 8:24 PM in Cocoa.
For complete accuracy as supportive evidence, we went to a source that has been time-tested, decade after decade after decade and in our belief, a tried and trusted source, The Old Farmer's Almanac which agrees the Sunset on July 8th in Cocoa was indeed 8:24 PM.
| | Q. | What government functions are located in the City of Cocoa's City Hall? | | A. | City Hall functions include the office of City Manger; City Clerk; Finance; Economic Development, which includes Community Redevelopment; Administrative Services which includes Human Resources, Information Technology, Purchasing/Warehouse and Fleet Management and Community Development which includes Building and Occupation Licensing, Code Enforcement, Housing and Neighborhood Services and Planning and Zoning. As a full-service city, outside of the City Hall, the City of Cocoa also includes Fire; Police; Public Works and Utilities, which includes Engineering, Water and Wastewater Services.
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