Treasure Coast · FL
Fort Pierce
A Seminole War fort town and the original home of the Navy SEALs.
- Population
- 47,297 (2020 census)
- Fort built
- 1838
- Incorporated
- 1901
Then
- 1838–1842
The Army builds Fort Pierce during the Second Seminole War, named for Benjamin Kendrick Pierce, brother of President Franklin Pierce.
- 1901
Fort Pierce incorporates.
- 1940s
Fort Pierce becomes the original home of the Navy SEALs.
- 1950s–1960s
A group of Black painters sell landscapes from their cars along the roads; they later become known as the Florida Highwaymen.
- 2024
A tornado spawned by Hurricane Milton kills six people on October 9.
Now
The National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum is here, and novelist Zora Neale Hurston lived in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Fort Pierce Inlet opens the Indian River Lagoon to the sea.
Port St. Lucie and the lagoon communities of Ankona and Nettles Island share this stretch of coast.
12 tide stations around Fort Pierce
- Fort Pierce, South Beach Causeway0.7 mi
- North Beach Causeway1.7 mi
- Fort Pierce Inlet, Binney Dock2.2 mi
- St. Lucie2.3 mi
- Fort Pierce Inlet, south jetty2.8 mi
- Ankona7.1 mi
- Oslo10.3 mi
- Eden, Nettles Island12.6 mi
- Vero Beach13.1 mi
- North Fork14.1 mi
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- Jensen Beach Causeway Park15.0 mi
- Vero Beach (ocean)15.6 mi