Tropic (also known as “The Trops”) is an unincorporated area in
Brevard County
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,
Florida
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,
United States
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.
It is the southernmost area on
Merritt Island
Merritt Island is a peninsula, commonly referred to as an island, in Brevard County, Florida, United States, located on the eastern Florida coast, along the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the name of an unincorporated town in the central and sout ...
, and its identity was absorbed into the
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
of Merritt Island during the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s. This portion of Merritt Island is served by
County Road 3 (South Tropical Trail) and the Mather's Bridge.
Geography
Tropic was located at .
Surrounding areas
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Lotus
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Indian River
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Indian Harbor Beach;
Satellite Beach
Satellite Beach is a coastal city in Brevard County, Florida, U.S. The population was 11,226 at the 2020 United States census, up from 10,109 at the 2010 census, and it is located with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Banana River to the ...
;
South Patrick Shores;
Banana River
The Banana River is a lagoon that lies between the outer barrier islands and Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida in the United States. It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system, and connects at its south end to the Indian River; it ...
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Indian River;
Palm Shores;
Sherman Park
Sherman Park is a sixty-acre park in the New City neighborhood of South Side, Chicago.
It was designed by renowned landscape architects John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., and celebrated Chicago architect Daniel Burnham. It o ...
;
Melbourne
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Footnotes
Merritt Island, Florida
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