Neptune Beach, Florida
Neptune Beach, Florida | |
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Images from top, left to right: Sunrise at the beach, City Hall, Beaches Town Center, Jaguar statue in the Beaches Town Center, Duncan U. Fletcher High School | |
Location of Neptune Beach, Florida | |
| Coordinates: 30°18′42.87″N 81°23′47.30″W / 30.3119083°N 81.3964722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Florida |
| County | Duval |
| Incorporated | August 11, 1931 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council–Manager |
| • Mayor | Cori Bylund |
| • City manager | Richard Pike Cheryl Bäck |
| • City Clerk | Catherine Ponson, CMC |
| • Councilmembers | Tim Horvath Brent Rogers Josh Messinger Nia Livingston |
| Area | |
| 6.850 sq mi (17.741 km2) | |
| • Land | 2.337 sq mi (6.052 km2) |
| • Water | 4.513 sq mi (11.688 km2) |
| Elevation | 10 ft (3 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| 7,217 | |
• Estimate (2023) | 6,984 |
| • Density | 2,988.85/sq mi (1,154.01/km2) |
| • Urban | 1,247,374 |
| • Metro | 1,713,240 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Code | 32266 |
| Area code(s) | 904 and 324 |
| FIPS code | 12-48100 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0287587 |
| Website | nbfl.gov |
Neptune Beach is a beachfront city east of Jacksonville in Duval County, Florida, United States. When the majority of Duval County communities consolidated with Jacksonville in 1968, Neptune Beach, along with Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Baldwin remained quasi-independent. Like those other municipalities, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and are represented on the Jacksonville city council. The population was 7,217 at the 2020 census. Neptune Beach is the smallest of the Jacksonville Beaches communities. it is part of the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.