Winter Garden Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Winter Garden Downtown Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Winter Garden, Florida. It is bounded by Woodland, Tremaine, Henderson, and Lakeview Streets, encompasses approximately 100 acres (0.40 km2), and contains 26 historic buildings.”
Wikipedia article Winter Garden Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Woodland, Tremaine, Henderson, and Lake View Sts., Winter Garden, 34787
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. district
Census division. Winter Garden-Ocoee
National Register reference number. 96000850 - 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

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Winter Garden Downtown Historic District 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

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winter Garden, the town this property stands in, 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

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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
Winter Garden Historic Residential District	0.2 miles	1996
Luther F. Tilden House	1.6 miles	1996
Ocoee Christian Church	2.5 miles	1997
Withers-Maguire House	2.6 miles	1987
Palm Cottage Gardens	4.5 miles	2000
Windermere Town Hall	5.7 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000850 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.