Vero Beach is a city in and the seat of Indian River County, Florida, United States. Vero Beach is the second most populous city in Indian River County. Abundant in beaches and wildlife, Vero Beach is located on Florida’s Treasure Coast. It is thirty-four miles south of Melbourne, Florida. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 data, the city had a population of 15,220.

Parts of a human skeleton were found north of Vero in connection with the remains of Pleistocene animals in 1915. The find was controversial, and the view that the human remains old from much far ahead than the Pleistocene prevailed for many years. In 2006, an image of a mastodon or mammoth carved upon a bone was found in vicinity of the Vero man discovery. A scientific forensic study of the bone found the carving had probably been curtains in the Pleistocene. Archaeologists from Mercyhurst University, in conjunction taking into consideration the Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee (OVIASC), conducted excavations at the Old Vero Man site in Vero Beach in 2014–2015. Starting in 2016, archaeologists from Florida Atlantic University allied the Old Vero Man site excavations.

In 1715, a Spanish treasure fleet wrecked off the coast of Vero. Eleven out of twelve Spanish ships carrying tonnes of silver foundered in a hurricane. The remains of the silver attracted pirates. A organization of 300 unemployed English privateers led by Henry Jennings stole about £87,500 in gold and silver in their first acts of piracy. The coins nevertheless wash to the shore to this day.

In 1872 Captain Allen W. Estes officially time-honored the first estate patent in the company of the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River Lagoon, after settling in the Place in 1870.