Montverde, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Clermont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34756. It lies near Smiths Island. The Survey maps it on the Clermont East quadrangle. 1,655 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1955 to 1979The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Montverde
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Harper Houselisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresMontverde grew from 1,463 to 1,655 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 | 1,463 | |
| 2020 | 1,655 | +192 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Clermont East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
132 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Montverde between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,397 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 33 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 1993 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 1993 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2006 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 35-TURKEY FARM-0725 |
| 6 June 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Montverde: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clermont Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Highway Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| E.R. Jahna Industries - Clermont Mine | Sand | Producer | ||
| Florida Crushed Stone Co. - Pine Needle Mine | Sand | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montverde in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Heavy Rain | Montverde | - | Orange County Fire Rescue reported heavy rain at a construction area washed dirt across the Florida Turnpike near mile marker 272, stranding several vehicles. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montverde | - | Lake County Emergency Management reported numerous trees down across the east side of Clermont; including at Old Highway 50 and County Road 455, Hartwood Marsh Road and Sadler Court, and the Magnolia Point Subdivision. Additional minor debris littered the roadways across Hartwood Marsh Road. The heaviest damage was reported to be off Lake Boulevard and Highway 50 near the Lake and Orange County line. Winds were estimated near 60 mph. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waits Junction | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ferndale | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Montverde Junction | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Reavills Corner | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Skytop | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Roan | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Mohawk | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Castle Hill | 3.8 miles | 13 |
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 Montverde | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2092516 | 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 287081. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.





