Doctor Phillips, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southwest Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32836. The Survey maps it on the Lake Jessamine quadrangle. 12,328 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1953 to 1979The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1953 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresDoctor Phillips grew from 10,981 to 12,328 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,981 | |
| 2020 | 12,328 | +1,347 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Lake Jessamine quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
82 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Doctor Phillips between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,934 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 13 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 19 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2013 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | PALM PARKWAY (48) |
| 29 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WENDY'S (O4) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doctor Phillips in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doctor Phillips | - | Orlando Health Emergency Management reported several downed trees causing damage to a couple of vehicles at the Dr. Phillips Hospital. Also, broadcast media relayed reports of downed power lines on Turkey Lake Road. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doctor Phillips | - | A mesonet weather station measured a peak wind gust of 65 mph at ICON Orlando. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Doctor Phillips | - | A Twitter report indicated penny size hail fell near the intersection of Westwood Boulevard and International Drive in Orlando. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doctor Phillips | - | Mesonet site at Orlando Health Hospital at Dr. Phillips recorded a peak wind of 86 mph from the WNW. |
| July 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Doctor Phillips | - | A trained weather spotter located at the Wet and Wild Water Park observed a brief funnel cloud to the east. A strong thunderstorm was observed by radar in the same location at this time. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Doctor Phillips | - | Golf ball size hail was reported in the Doctor Phillips area of Orange County. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Hill | 1.8 miles | 11 | |
| Tangelo Park | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Cain Hills | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Williamsburg | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Vineland | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Ridge | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Windermere | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Lake Butler | 4.4 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Doctor Phillips | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2421878 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867136. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





