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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.

Ocoee within Orange County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Ocoee, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Ocoee, surveyed 1955

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ocoee 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.

YearPeople Change
201035,579
202047,295+11,716 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCLARKE (48)
12 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCOLONIAL (48)
6 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWET BIRD (4)
3 May 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 May 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2004LightningOcoee1 killed, 2 hurtA 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 1996Thunderstorm WindOcoee1 hurt, $20,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOcoee$40,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and power lines in the Ocoee area. Two homes were damaged by falling trees.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindOcoee$500Pieces 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 2024HailOcoee-Quarter size hail reported in Ocoee near the intersection of White Rd and Clarke Rd.
February 2024HailOcoee-Quarter size hail reported in Ocoee near the Intersection of Good Homes Rd and State Road 50.
February 2024HailOcoee-Public reports of hail up to ping pong ball size in Gotha via social media.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindOcoee-A trained spotter reported numerous large branches downed by severe wind gusts on Lauren Beth Avenue and Nicole Avenue in Ocoee.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOcoee-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 2015HailOcoee-A trained spotter reported penny-sized hail near Ocoee.
June 2009HailOcoee-Dime size (0.75 inch) hail fell briefly within Ocoee.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOcoee-A local TV station reported trees and power lines down and a greenhouse damaged on McCormick Road.
June 2003Funnel CloudOcoee-The public reported a funnel cloud over Ocoee.
July 2003HailOcoee-no account filed
May 1998HailOcoee-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindOcoee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Minorville (historical)1.2 miles14
Crown Point1.8 miles14
Fullers2.2 miles14
Winter Garden2.3 miles14
Beulah2.8 miles14
Gotha3.1 miles14
Tildenville3.5 miles14
Paradise Heights3.8 miles14

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 OcoeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155347The 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.