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Windermere, Florida

11 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 34786. The Survey maps it on the Windermere quadrangle. 3,030 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Windermere within Orange County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Windermere, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Windermere, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

On record in Windermere

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

Windermere grew from 2,462 to 3,030 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
20102,462
20203,030+568 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Windermere between 1992 and 2017, burning about 590 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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 maintenance17
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning1

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
18 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWENDY'S (O4)
21 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUMMERPORT KEY (4)
12 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2001Natural115 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROLF
4 June 2000Natural125 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windermere in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010LightningWindermere$400,000Lightning from a strong storm over Windermere struck a home and caused a fire which destroyed the home. Two firemen were treated for smoke inhalation while fighting the fire.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWindermere$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew trees down damaging cars in the Windermere area. Winds were reported near 60 mph in downtown Orlando.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWindermere$3,000A trained spotter reported a tree was knocked down onto nearby fences in Windermere.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindWindermere$1,000no account filed
September 2020Funnel CloudWindermere-Local broadcast media relayed a report and photograph of a well-defined funnel cloud over a lake in Windermere. The photograph hinted that the funnel cloud may have briefly formed into a waterspout on an inland lake, but this could not be confirmed.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindWindermere-WeatherBug mesonet site in Windermere recorded a peak gust of 67 mph as a severe thunderstorm passed by.
July 2012HailWindermere-Local media relayed a report of penny sized hail on Winding Lake Circle in Dr. Phillips.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWindermere-Many medium sized tree limbs downed as intense thunderstorm crossed the region.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindWindermere-Numerous trees were knocked down in southwest Orange County including one that fell on a garage.
March 2001HailWindermere-no account filed
September 2000HailWindermere-no account filed
May 1999HailWindermere-no account filed
April 1999HailWindermere-no account filed
February 1998HailWindermere-no account filed
July 1996HailWindermere-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
Lake Butler0.5 miles14
Summerport Beach1.6 miles11
Bay Hill2.1 miles11
Gotha2.3 miles14
Lake Cain Hills3.2 miles12
Beulah3.4 miles14
Doctor Phillips3.9 miles12
Minorville (historical)3.9 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 WindermereAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1893545The 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 293401. 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.