Ocoee, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Winter Garden-Ocoee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34761. The Survey maps it on the Winter Garden quadrangle. 47,295 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 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 Ocoee
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 3 records
Ocoee Christian Churchlisted 1997
Withers-Maguire Houselisted 1987
Woman's Club of Ocoeelisted 2011
Population over time
2 figuresOcoee grew from 35,579 to 47,295 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 | 35,579 | |
| 2020 | 47,295 | +11,716 (+33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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
- 1956 USGS Winter Garden quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Ocoee between 1992 and 2017, burning about 273 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CLARKE (48) |
| 12 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 June 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 May 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | COLONIAL (48) |
| 6 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WET BIRD (4) |
| 3 May 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 May 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocoee in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Lightning | Ocoee | 1 killed, 2 hurt | A 10 year old girl died about five days after being struck by lightning while holding an umbrella at a bus stop. Two other children were injured. |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocoee | 1 hurt, $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocoee | $40,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and power lines in the Ocoee area. Two homes were damaged by falling trees. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocoee | $500 | Pieces of a metal shed were torn off and blown off during a strong thunderstorm and carried a short distance down-wind. Power lines were also downed nearby. A weather spotter in the vicinity estimated peak winds of 50 to 55 mph. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Ocoee | - | Quarter size hail reported in Ocoee near the intersection of White Rd and Clarke Rd. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Ocoee | - | Quarter size hail reported in Ocoee near the Intersection of Good Homes Rd and State Road 50. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Ocoee | - | Public reports of hail up to ping pong ball size in Gotha via social media. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocoee | - | A trained spotter reported numerous large branches downed by severe wind gusts on Lauren Beth Avenue and Nicole Avenue in Ocoee. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocoee | - | Several reports were received via social media of wind related damage in western Orange County. The first report was of a large Sycamore tree downed by winds near the West Oaks Mall in Ocoee. About five minutes later, reports were received of large trees downed and a wooden fence knocked over in Windermere. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Ocoee | - | A trained spotter reported penny-sized hail near Ocoee. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ocoee | - | Dime size (0.75 inch) hail fell briefly within Ocoee. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocoee | - | A local TV station reported trees and power lines down and a greenhouse damaged on McCormick Road. |
| June 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Ocoee | - | The public reported a funnel cloud over Ocoee. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Ocoee | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Ocoee | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocoee | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minorville (historical) | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Crown Point | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Fullers | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Winter Garden | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Beulah | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Gotha | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Tildenville | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Paradise Heights | 3.8 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 Ocoee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2155347 | 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 288049. 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.





