Winter Garden, 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 34787. It lies near Gator Island. The Survey maps it on the Winter Garden quadrangle. 46,964 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 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 Winter Garden
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
Luther F. Tilden Houselisted 1996
Winter Garden Downtown Historic Districtlisted 1996
Winter Garden Historic Residential Districtlisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresWinter Garden grew from 34,568 to 46,964 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 | 34,568 | |
| 2020 | 46,964 | +12,396 (+36%) |
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
35 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Winter Garden between 1993 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 2 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 maintenance | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | SUMMERPORT KEY (4) |
| 12 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WET BIRD (4) |
| 30 May 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 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 |
| 23 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | (04) MOSQUITO BAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winter Garden in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 3 deaths and 72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Tornado (F3) | Winter Garden | 3 killed, 70 hurt, $15,000,000 | The Lake County tornado moved into Orange County about 5 miles southwest of Winter Garden moving northeast at 45 mph. It rapidly intensified to a category F3 tornado with estimated winds near 200 mph. The tornado moved through Winter Garden between 11:47 pm and 11:55 pm destroying a mobile home community in Winter Garden. There were three fatalities and 70 injuries. Five hundred structures were either damaged or destroyed. |
| August 2009 | Lightning | Winter Garden | 2 hurt | A lightning bolt struck a tree and injured two children that were standing beneath it. The 14 year old male and 12 year old female were both transported to a local hospital with non life threatening injuries. The female was still on the ground when emergency personnel arrived and had burn injuries consistent with a lightning strike. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winter Garden | $50,000 | Several large oak trees were toppled in Winter Garden as a thunderstorm produced a locally severe microburst. One tree landed on the roof of a home and another fell on an SUV, causing damage. Large tree branches and powerlines were downed throughout the area. Three miles away and a few minutes earlier, strong winds impacted Lake Beulah and snapped a large palm tree in half. Based on damage photos, winds were estimated near 60 mph. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winter Garden | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and numerous trees damaging a mobile in Winter Garden. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Winter Garden | - | Several reports received from the public of dime to quarter size hail in Winter Garden. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Winter Garden | - | A member of the public reported golf ball sized hail in Winter Garden. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Winter Garden | - | Several reports of hail up to golf ball size were received from trained spotters and the public in Winter Garden. Additionally, reports of quarter sized hail were received a few minutes later from nearby areas. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winter Garden | - | Orange Couonty Fire/Rescue reported a tree and power lines down. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winter Garden | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Winter Garden. |
| June 2003 | Heavy Rain | Winter Garden | - | Heavy rain produced minor street flooding in Winter Garden. |
| September 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winter Garden | - | Severe thunderstorms produce dime-size-hail and blew down numerous trees in southwest Orange County. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Winter Garden | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Winter Garden | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Winter Garden | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Winter Garden | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Winter Garden | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tildenville | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Crown Point | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Beulah | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Ocoee | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Oakland | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Minorville (historical) | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Fullers | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Killarney | 3.6 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 Winter Garden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2152414 | 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 293423. 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.





