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Vero Beach is a city in Indian River County, Florida, USA. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 16,939. It is the county seat of Indian River County. Vero Beach is a Principal City of the Sebastian–Vero Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is home to 130,100 people.
Vero Beach may be best known as the location of Dodgertown, where the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team held their spring training camp from 1948 until 2008 when it moved to a new facility in Glendale, Arizona. The stadium was also the home to the minor league Vero Beach Devil Rays; however, in August 2008 the franchise was sold to the Ripken Baseball Group and did not return to Vero Beach for the 2009 season. In 2009, Dodgertown was sold to Minor League Baseball, and there is no word yet if a new team will make it its home.
Piper Aircraft Inc. builds aircraft here. Major industries include citrus fruit packing and tourism.
Geography and climate
Vero Beach is located at 27°38′31″N 80°23′28″W / 27.64194°N 80.39111°W / 27.64194; -80.39111 (27.641817, -80.391105). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.93 square miles (33.5 km 2 ). 11.07 square miles (28.7 km 2 ) of it is land and 1.85 square miles (4.8 km 2 ) of it (14.31%) is water.
The city is divided by the Indian River Lagoon into the mainland on one side and Orchid Island, the oceanfront barrier island on the other. The island's population consists of wealthy vacation dwellers and well-to-do year-round residents. Restrictive zoning has allowed the island to repel attempts to develop high-rise hotels and large commercial centers, so it maintains a quiet, residential atmosphere.
According to the World Almanac and Book of Facts, Vero Beach is at the eastern end of a demarcation line that separates Florida's climate into two zones, to the north of the town has a humid subtropical climate and a tropical climate to the south. From Vero Beach, this line stretches straight across the state, with Bradenton, FL on the western end of the demarcation line.
Hurricane Frances
Hurricane Frances was the sixth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. The system crossing the open Atlantic during mid to late August, moving to the north of the Lesser Antilles while strengthening. Its outer bands affected Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands while passing north of the Caribbean sea. The storm's maximum sustained wind speeds peaked at 145 miles per hour (233 km/h), achieving Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. As the system slowed down its forward motion, the eye passed over San Salvador Island and very close to Cat Island in the Bahamas. Frances was the first hurricane to impact the entire Bahamian archipelago since 1866, and led to the nearly complete destruction of their agricultural economy.
Frances then passed over the central sections of the state of Florida in the U.S. only three weeks after Hurricane Charley, causing significant damage to the state's citrus crop, closing schools and canceling a football game. The storm then moved briefly offshore Florida into the northeast Gulf of Mexico and made a second U.S. landfall at the Florida Panhandle before accelerating northeast through the eastern United States near the Appalachians into Atlantic Canada while weakening. A significant tornado outbreak accompanied the storm across the eastern United States, nearly equaling the outbreak from Hurricane Beulah. Very heavy rains fell in association with this slow moving and relatively large hurricane, which led to floods in Florida and North Carolina. A total of 49 lives were lost from the cyclone. Damages totaled US$12 billion (2004 dollars).
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 17,705 people, 8,516 households, and 4,777 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,598.9/mi² (617.5/km²). There were 10,286 housing units at an average density of 928.9/mi² (358.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.73% White, 3.42% African American, 0.20% Native American, 1.24% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.40% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.79% of the population.
There were 8,516 households out of which 17.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.4% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.9% were non-families. 36.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.02 and the average family size was 2.59.
In the city the population was spread out with 16.0% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 29.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 92.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $38,427, and the median income for a family was $50,260. Males had a median income of $31,217 versus $24,022 for females. The per capita income for the city was $30,940. About 6.4% of families and 9.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.6% of those under age 18 and 4.5% of those age 65 or over.
Vero Beach is home to more retired Fortune 500 CEO's than any other location in the world and has the fourth highest concentration of wealthy households in the country. Most of these residents live on the exclusive barrier island that is divided from the mainland by the Indian River.
Transportation
Vero Beach Municipal Airport is located one mile northwest of the one central business district.
John F. Kennedy Jr. received his flight certification at Vero Beach Municipal Airport and spent much of his leisure time in the oceanside resort town.
Industry
Vero Beach is home to general aviation manufacturer Piper Aircraft , which is the largest private employer in Indian River County. Aside from Piper, the bulk of commercial activity in Vero Beach centers around tourism, particularly in the high season months of December through April; the citrus industry (Vero Beach is well-known for Indian River Grapefruit); and professional and service activities, particularly those catering the area's large senior citizen population.
Rail
The Florida East Coast Railway's mainline bisects Vero Beach. The old passenger depot was relocated next to the trackage to its current location, though there is no regularly scheduled passenger service to Vero Beach at present, but serves as a museum. FEC serves a local lumber/building materials customer in Vero Beach itself that receives boxcars and flatcars, and a sand/aggregate customer just to the north of Vero that receives hopper cars, including FEC's signature Ortner aggregate hoppers. These are visible to railfans when they travel on the roadway that parallels the FEC right-of-way. Most FEC trains, and NS run-throughs with trackage rights, pass through Vero under cover of darkness. FEC is fully-CTC, and extremely well-maintained. Indeed, employment with FEC is one of the most coveted railroad industry jobs in the South-east United States. Just to the north of Vero, in the vicinity of the sand/aggregate customer, the now-disconnected spurs that once served citrus-packing companies in the area can be seen. These companies now ship their product by truck. It is unknown, at present, if FEC intends to try to recapture this business by reconnecting the various spurs and offering regular local service that can move the product to market faster.
Points of interest
Restaurants
CARMEL'S Fine Dining 398 21st St Vero Beach, FL. 32961 (772) 299-7131
Costa d' Este: Vero Beach FL Resorts Hotels Spas Ocean Drive Vero Beach, FL 32963 (772) 562-9919
Maison Martinique: The Caribbean Court Boutique Hotel, and Havana Nights Piano Bar 1601 Ocean Drive Vero Beach, FL 32963 (772) 231-7211
“Oriente”. Designed to be a destination dining and entertainment experience, “Oriente” specializes in Cuban cuisine, with the influence of Spanish, Latin, and Creole traditions as interpreted by the Oriente region of Cuba. Owned by famous Gloria and Emilio Estefan.
Ocean Grill 1050 Beachland Blvd, Vero Beach - (772) 231-5409 Seafood log lounge built on the beach, you can watch the space shuttle launch.
River side café theatre 1 Beachland Blvd Vero Beach, FL 32960 (772) 234-5550...big night life area. Seafoods , salads, burgers, deserts.
The patio (772) 569-3751 1103 21st St Vero Beach, FL 32960-5319 (772) 563-2844By Sam Wolfe
Jack Baker's Lobster Shanty. 1 Royal Palm Pt Vero Beach, FL 32960-5237 (772) 562-1941
Kelley's Irish Pub 484 21st Street Vero Beach, FL 32960-6038 (772) 567-3838
Tubby's All American Subs 3212 Avaition Blvd. Vero Beach, FL 32960 (772) 299-0832
Beaches
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