Palm Cottage Gardens

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Palm Cottage Gardens, also known as the Henry Nehrling Estate, is a historic site in Gotha, Florida, United States. On November 7, 2000, it was added to the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Palm Cottage Gardens, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2267 Hempel Ave., Gotha, 34734
When was it listed? November 2000
Category. building
Census division. Winter Garden-Ocoee
National Register reference number. 00000982 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Palm Cottage Gardens between 1992 and 2017, burning about 340 acres in total. 1 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	21
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
21 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
12 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 June 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 June 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 June 1998	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 May 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	SLEEPWALKER (04)
7 May 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	COLONIAL (48)

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gotha, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2012	Hail	Gotha	$300	A local media outlet relayed a public report of quarter sized hail in Courtleigh Park in Dr. Phillips. Damage was sustained to a residential pool screen from the hail.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gotha	-	Two adjacent homes on a large lake experienced major damage to pool screen enclosures from very strong winds which came off the lake. Several trees were also toppled.

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

6 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ocoee Christian Church	2.8 miles	1997
Cal Palmer Memorial Building	2.8 miles	1995
Windermere Town Hall	2.8 miles	1994
Withers-Maguire House	2.9 miles	1987
1890 Windermere School	2.9 miles	2003
Winter Garden Downtown Historic District	4.5 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000982 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 56 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.