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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.

Winter Garden 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 Winter Garden, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Winter Garden, surveyed 1955

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

Population over time

2 figures

Winter 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.

YearPeople Change
201034,568
202046,964+12,396 (+36%)

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

35 since 1993

Regional 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 maintenance13
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
13 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUMMERPORT KEY (4)
12 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWET BIRD (4)
30 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 May 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 May 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 May 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(04) MOSQUITO BAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Tornado (F3)Winter Garden3 killed, 70 hurt, $15,000,000The 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 2009LightningWinter Garden2 hurtA 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 2016Thunderstorm WindWinter Garden$50,000Several 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 2001Thunderstorm WindWinter Garden$20,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and numerous trees damaging a mobile in Winter Garden.
May 2020HailWinter Garden-Several reports received from the public of dime to quarter size hail in Winter Garden.
July 2019HailWinter Garden-A member of the public reported golf ball sized hail in Winter Garden.
July 2019HailWinter 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 2008Thunderstorm WindWinter Garden-Orange Couonty Fire/Rescue reported a tree and power lines down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWinter Garden-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Winter Garden.
June 2003Heavy RainWinter Garden-Heavy rain produced minor street flooding in Winter Garden.
September 1994Thunderstorm WindWinter Garden-Severe thunderstorms produce dime-size-hail and blew down numerous trees in southwest Orange County.
August 2005HailWinter Garden-no account filed
June 2004HailWinter Garden-no account filed
May 1999HailWinter Garden-no account filed
July 1997HailWinter Garden-no account filed
March 1996HailWinter Garden-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
Tildenville1.2 miles14
Crown Point1.9 miles14
Beulah2.2 miles14
Ocoee2.3 miles14
Oakland2.6 miles13
Minorville (historical)2.7 miles14
Fullers2.9 miles14
Killarney3.6 miles13

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 GardenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2152414The 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.