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Cocoa is a city in Brevard County, Florida, with a 2020 population of 19,041, up from 17,140 in 2010, and is part of the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city was chartered on October 1, 1895, with its name derived from either a Baker's Cocoa tin box used for mail delivery or an elderly woman who supplied hot cocoa to Indian River sailors. Cocoa's population quadrupled from 3,098 in 1940 to 12,244 in 1960 following the development of the space industry at Cape Canaveral, which also drove tourism growth in the region. The city hosted the Colt 45s (later Houston Astros) spring training at Cocoa Stadium from 1964 until the team relocated in 1985, and is home to the S. F. Travis Hardware store, which has operated continuously since 1885. Cocoa operates under a council-manager government structure adopted in 1959, with five council members and a separately elected mayor overseeing the city's police and fire departments. Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, located 72 miles southeast of Orlando on Florida's Space Coast near Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, with a population of 87,561 as of July 2024. The area shows evidence of Paleo-Indian habitation dating to the late Pleistocene epoch, with archaeological discoveries in the 1920s including mammoth and mastodon bones alongside worked flint tools and spear points. The city was founded after 1877 by settlers including Richard W. Goode and three Black freedmen, and was named Melbourne by postmaster Cornthwaite John Hector after the Australian city where he had lived. Key historical developments include the establishment of the first school in 1883, a devastating downtown fire in 1919, Naval Air Station Melbourne's founding in 1942 for World War II pilot training, and the city's integration in the late 1960s. Melbourne is a principal city of the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville metropolitan statistical area and serves as a hub for the region's space industry economy. Orlando is a city and the county seat of Orange County in Central Florida, making it the state's fourth-most populous city and most populous inland city with a population of 307,573 as of 2020. The Orlando metropolitan area had an estimated 2.67 million residents in 2020, ranking it as Florida's third-largest and the 22nd-largest in the United States. The city is the fourth-most visited in the U.S. with over 3.5 million visitors as of 2023, anchored by major theme parks including Walt Disney World (opened 1971) and Universal Orlando (opened 1990), served by the 7th-busiest airport in the nation. Beyond tourism, Orlando hosts the second-largest convention facility in the United States at the Orange County Convention Center and features cultural institutions like the Orlando Museum of Art and Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in its downtown. The city's history traces to Fort Gatlin, established in 1838 during the Second Seminole War, which was later settled by Isaac and Aaron Jernigan in 1843, eventually becoming known as Orlando.