Pensacola Beach is an unrelated community located on Santa Rosa Island, a barrier island, in Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is located south of Pensacola (and the Gulf Breeze is connected via a bridge that runs to the Fairpoint Peninsula and then to the island) in the Gulf of Mexico. In the 2000 census, the population had a total population of 2,738 inhabitants. Pensacola Beach occupies land bound by the 1947 Act of the United States Department of State administered for public interest by region or leased, but never "thrown away"; business and residents are long-term leaseholders and not property owners.
Pensacola Beach is part of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers all of Escambia County and Santa Rosa areas.
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History
- Also see: History of Pensacola, Florida.
Francisco Maldonado, a lieutenant under the Conquistador Hernando de Soto, visited the area early in the Spanish exploration of North America. He docked in Pensacola Bay for the winter of 1539-1540.
In 1559, Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano led the first settlement in the region. 11 vessels, with 1500 settlers, anchored in the bay and established his colony at the Pensacola Naval Air Station site. The storm cleared the colony a few weeks later, killing hundreds and drowning 5 ships. Suffering from hunger and long-term battles, the first settlement was finally abandoned in 1561. A presidio was built on Santa Rosa Island in 1722 near the site of the newer Fort Pickens. Storms in 1741 and 1752 forced relocation to the mainland.
Pensacola Beach for many years remains undeveloped. The Casino Resort is the first tourist destination built on the island (at the present location of the Casino Coast) where special events include beauty contests, fishing tournaments and boxing matches held from the 30s to 50s. With bars, tennis courts, bathing houses and restaurants, it is a popular resort until it finally closes in the 1960s.
The entire island was originally owned by the federal government. To promote infrastructure and growth on the island, the federal government leases land that now includes Pensacola Beach to the Santa Rosa Island Authority (SRIA), which in turn has leased the property to homeowners. As a result, all structures on the island have a 99 year renewable lease with SRIA rather than the ownership of the land itself.
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Geography
Pensacola Beach is located on 30Ã, Â ° 20? 00? N 87Ã, Â ° 08? 15? W , on the Santa Rosa barrier island. It is bordered by the south by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Santa Rosa Sound and Pensacola Bay, and to the east and west by the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
High-rise
Pensacola Beach is home to some of the tallest buildings between Mobile and Tallahassee. The list below ranks the building height. 1) Portofino Towers (182 feet). 2) Beach Club (175 ft). 3) Santa Rosa Towers (170 feet). 4) Verandas Tower (154 feet). 5) Hilton Pensacola Beach Resort (152 feet).
Climate
While generally cooler than most of the Florida peninsula, Pensacola Beach maintains a more stable temperature throughout the year from the inland areas of Pensacola and Escambia County. Thus, the winter lows are some degree warmer than Pensacola height and the summit of summer is generally cooler as a result of the waters around it. As with many islands, Pensacola Beach enjoys a sea breeze that begins around noon and ends around sunset in the summer.
Oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon, a BP-operated oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, exploded April 20, 2010, eventually releasing nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before closing on August 4, 2010. Oil from the Explosion did not reach Pensacola Beaches until June 4 2010. The crews are set up along the coast of Escambia County to quickly clean up the many oils seen along the coast. Tourism in the Pensacola Beach area was affected during the summer of 2010.
Hurricanes
As a community located on a lowland barrier island, Pensacola Beach is vulnerable to hurricanes. The landfalling storm has been known to drive storm surges on the island, destroying or destroying manmade structures and causing coastal erosion. In 1995, two storms made landfall on the island. Hurricane Erin made landfall in August while Hurricane Opal lashed out at the island just two months later, flattening some dunes and destroying houses.
On September 16, 2004, Hurricane Ivan destroyed the Pensacola Beach area, destroying more than 650 homes and damaging many other homes. Ivan was the last Hurricane to make Florida land in 2004, one of the most devastating typhoon seasons in decades.
On July 10, 2005, Dennis landed between Pensacola Beach and East-end Navarre Beach. However, as with Erin a few years earlier, the damage on Pensacola Beach is not nearly as large as expected.
The island has been subject to mandatory evacuation orders during some of these storms.
Public transport
Pensacola Beach has 7 days a week service on Route # 64 Escambia County Transit Area (ECAT) route.
Government and infrastructure
Escambia County Fire Rescue operates Fire Station # 13 Pensacola Beach.
The Escambia County Sheriff's Office has a police station 1 that includes Pensacola Beach, which is operated out of the Pensacola Beach Sheriff Sub-Station.
Attractions
Casino Coast
The beach resort, Casino Beach, in Pensacola Beach, named after the original casino that stood this location is a popular beach access. The location is filled with restaurants and family entertainment venues. The hotel is located next to Pensacola Beach Pier Pier and features booths and beach guard stations, volleyball courts, snack bars and extensive parking. The Gulfside Pavilion hosts a series of "Band on the Beach" concerts during the summer holiday season.
Quietwater Beach Boardwalk
The boardwalk is on the Santa Rosa Sound side of the island, just across from Casino Beach. Retail stores, restaurants, nightclubs, street musicians, and sidewalk artists. The Boardwalk has a large sea shell stage where concerts are held several times a year.
Fort Pickens
Located on the western tip of Santa Rosa Island, Fort Pickens was completed in 1834 and used until World War II, when modern weapons made traditional beach defenses obsolete. It is open to the public as part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, at the cost required to enter; campsites are also available at an additional cost.
New home
Pensacola Beach is home to several "new homes", including the home of "Dome of a Home", built in 2002 using a monolithic dome in the form of a large concrete dome, designed to withstand structurally storm wind forces at 133 m/s and storm surge. He withstood the storms of Ivan and Dennis. It is also known as "Flintstone Home" because of the fact it resembles a stone house.
Another new home is a house with a UFO-shaped Futuro embedded as a second story. This Futuro home is sometimes called "Spaceship House."
Education
There is one school in Pensacola Beach. Pensacola Beach Elementary School, in the Escambia County School District (ECSD), is for children from kindergarten to fifth grade. The school has enrollments ranging from 120 to 140 students. All primary school aged children at Pensacola Beach are eligible to attend school. The first year of school was opened, for the academic year 1977-1978, the class was held in the empty A-frame house. The Pensacola Volunteer Beach Firehouse is also used to help teachers and administrators. In November 1977, four portable buildings were moved to this location. Their school has received a 5 Star School award since 1998. In 2001 Pensacola Beach Elementary lost direct district operational control and became a charter school. In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan destroyed offices and four classrooms. Jeff Castleberry, principal, argues that ECSD will close the school if it has direct operational control. The cost to repair the damage at Pensacola Beach Elementary is $ 1.5 million. The campus is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico and built on stage. By 2016 Thomas St. Myer from Pensacola News Journal describes it as one of several Escambia County charter schools that "cite the charter schools at their best".
Pensacola Beach is categorized into different ECSD primary schools, Suter Elementary School, as well as Workman Middle School, and Pensacola High School. But most of the students at Pensacola Beach attend the Santa Rosa County School District school in Gulf Breeze for grades of high school and high: they will include Gulf Breeze Middle School and Gulf Breeze High School. In addition, some attend the Pensacola-area magnetic schools.
Religion
There are only two traditional churches on Pensacola Beach. It is under the laws and guidelines of the Santa Rosa Island Authority that this is the only church on the island. However, since around 2011, at least two other regional churches have a satellite church meeting and openly worship on the water's edge on Sunday morning.
See also
- Sandshaker Operation
References
External links
- Pensacola Beach travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Tourism website
- Pensacola Beach Preservation & amp; History Society
- Pensacola Beach Webcam
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