- Juan Ponce de Leon is said to have arrived in Florida in 1513.
- The last naval battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought off the shores of Cape Canaveral in 1783, between the USS Alliance and the HMS Sybill.
- The county was named "Mosquito County" while the state was still a territory, and on some maps is absorbed into an unofficial "Leigh Read County" between 1839 and 1845. It was named "Saint Lucia County" in 1844 and renamed "Brevard County" in 1855 after George Washington Brevard who served as Florida State Comptroller from 1854 to 1860.
- Tourism brings $1 billion annually to Brevard.
- The Globe Sebastian Inlet Pro surfing contest draws 16,000 visitors the second weekend in January.
- Seven bridges cross the Indian River Lagoon and five bridges cross the Banana River Lagoon.
- Port Canaveral is the world's busiest port bringing in over $1/2 billion a year.
- Brevard County is the 13th largest county in the United States.
- The average high temperature is 81 degrees, the average low temperature is 63 degrees and the overall average temperature is 76 degrees.
- Brevard County has 72 miles of Atlantic Coastline and beaches and 33 miles of Atlantic barrier islands.
- Brevard County hosts over 3,000 species of plants and animals, 40 of which are rare and endangered.
- Melbourne Beach is the oldest beach community in the county.
- The Melbourne Beach Pier, built in 1888, is 650 feet long and 12 feet wide. Up until the 1920's, it was used for the docking of passenger and freight vessels.
- The state reptile is the alligator, the state marine mammal is the manatee, the state saltwater mammal is the porpoise, the state animal is the Florida panther, the state beverage is orange juice, the state saltwater fish is the sailfish, the state freshwater fish is the largemouth bass, the state wildflower is the coreopsis and the state flower is the orange blossom.
- Contrary to popular belief, Florida is not the southernmost state in the United States, Hawaii is.
- The St. John's River is one of the few rivers in the world that flows north instead of south.
- Humans have inhabited Brevard County for 12,000 years
- The Ais inhabited Brevard when the Spanish explorers discovered the area
- Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore (founders of the local NAACP and well known civil rights activists) were slain on Christmas day 1951, which was also their wedding anniversary, when their home was bombed. Florida's Attorney General has offered a reward and established a hotline to solve the slaying
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