Atlantic Beach is a city
in Duval County,
Florida, United States.
When the majority of
communities in Duval
County consolidated with
Jacksonville, Florida in
1968, Atlantic Beach,
along with Jacksonville
Beach, Neptune Beach,
and Baldwin, Florida,
remained
quasi-independent. Like
the other towns, it
maintains its own
municipal government but
its residents vote in
the Jacksonville mayoral
election and have
representation on the
Jacksonville city
council. The population
was 13,368 at the 2000
census. According to the
U.S Census estimates of
2005, the city had a
population of 13,436.
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Atlantic Beach took off
around 1900 after Henry
Flagler built the
Mayport stop of his East
Coast Railway to the
north of the town. The
Atlantic Beach
Corporation bought and
developed most of the
land in what is now
Atlantic Beach in 1915,
and the town was
incorporated in 1926.
Atlantic Beach is part
of the Jacksonville
Beaches community.