Church of the Good Shepherd

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Church of the Good Shepherd built in 1880 is an historic Episcopal church located at 331 Lake Avenue in Maitland, Orange County, Florida. Designed by renowned New York architect Charles C.”
Wikipedia article Church of the Good Shepherd (Maitland, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 331 Lake Ave, Maitland, 32751
When was it listed? March 2011
Category. building
Also known as. Florida's Carpenter Gothic Churches MPS
Census division. Orlando
Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic
Architect. Charles C. Haight
National Register reference number. 11000144 - 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.

Then and now

1955 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Church of the Good Shepherd, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Church of the Good Shepherd, surveyed 1955

Fires near this property

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Good Shepherd between 1992 and 2019, burning about 99 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
26 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 July 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 July 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 June 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 June 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 May 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Church of the Good Shepherd: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mabel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maitland, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Maitland	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees and large limbs. A car was damaged by a fallen tree.
April 2021	Hail	Maitland	-	A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail in Maitland near Seneca Trail and Horatio Avenue.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Maitland	-	Broadcast media relayed a report of trees and large branches down in front of a home in Arbor Ridge between Econlockhatchee Road and Dean Road near Union Park. Another report was received from Maitland where a tree fell into an apartment balcony.
July 2017	Hail	Maitland	-	Broadcast Media relayed a report via Twitter of quarter sized hail in Maitland.
April 2013	Funnel Cloud	Maitland	-	A public report of a funnel cloud was received. The citizen estimated the location of the funnel cloud to be near I-4 in the Heathrow area.
April 2013	Hail	Maitland	-	A weather spotter observed quarter sized hail in Altamonte Springs.
April 2013	Hail	Maitland	-	A trained weather spotter observed penny sized hail in Apopka.
May 2002	Hail	Maitland	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Maitland	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Maitland	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Maitland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

7 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 Orlando East quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1994 USGS Orlando East quadrangle1:24000

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
William H. Waterhouse House	under 500 feet	1983
Maitland Art Center	0.4 miles	1982
Eatonville Historic District	0.8 miles	1998
Downtown Winter Park Historic District	1.2 miles	2011
Winter Park Country Club and Golf Course	1.5 miles	1999
Robert Bruce Barbour House	1.5 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000144 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.