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Windermere is a town in Orange County,
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, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 3,030. It is part of the
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Metropolitan Statistical Area.


History

A post office opened in Windermere in 1888. The post office closed in 1901, and reopened in 1911. Windermere was established as a residential development in 1889 and chartered in 1925. During late 2007, the town of Windermere filed a proposal to annex
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and Butler Bay, both wealthy subdivisions. This was met with extensive debate from town residents and an objection from Orange County, which stood to lose millions of dollars of property tax revenue. After lengthy discussions, and battles with the county, Isleworth remained unincorporated, but Butler Bay was annexed into Windermere, with over 90% of its residents approving annexation via a mail-in ballot.


Geography

The exact coordinates for the Town of Windermere is located at . According to the
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, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.98%, is water.


Climate

The Town of Windermere is part of the
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zone with a
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of "Cfa" (C = mild temperate, f = fully humid, and a = hot summer). The record high temperature in Windermere is 101 °F, which took place in 1998, and the record low temperature is 19 °F, which took place in 1985. Facts table located at bottom of weather graphs.


Demographics


2010 and 2020 census

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,030 people, 1,426 households, and 1,047 families residing in the town. The types of households in the town, in 2015–2019, were 75.6% married couples with families, 2.2% cohabiting couples, 12% male householders with no spouse, and 10.2% female householders with no spouse. As of the 2010 United States census, there were 2,462 people, 875 households, and 770 families residing in the town.


2000 census

As of the
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of 2000, there were 1,897 people, 704 households, and 561 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 723 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 95.68%
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, 1.27%
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, 0.05% Native American, 2.00% Asian, 0.00%
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, 0.32% from other races, and 0.69% from two or more races. 3.53% of the population were
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or Latino of any race. In 2000, there were 704 households, out of which 36.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.3% were
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living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.2% were non-families. 17.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.05. In 2000, in the town, 27.5% of the population was under the age of 18, 5.1% was from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 30.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 104.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.3 males. In 2000, the median income for a household in the town was $88,809, and the median income for a family was $105,737. Males had a median income of $80,693 versus $37,321 for females. The
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for the town was $51,370. 3.1% of the population and 2.4% of families were below the
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. 3.0% of those under the age of 18 and 9.1% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.


Government

Windermere has a Town Manager / City Council form of government. Five council members are elected at large for two-year terms with three running for election in odd years and two running for election in even years along with the mayor. Police services are provided by the Windermere Police Department. In January 2014, the department's former chief, Daniel Saylor, was sentenced to eight years in prison for perjury. He had lied to the court in order to protect a friend who was found guilty of raping children and sentenced to life in prison. Saylor had pleaded guilty to other charges in 2011, earning him a year in jail. Fire rescue and emergency medical services are provided by the Ocoee Fire Department. Postal services are provided by the Windermere Post Office. The Floridan Aquifer is Windermere and Orange County's source of drinking and fire hydrant water, which is filtered naturally through hundreds of feet of sand and rock, and then treated by the Orange County Water Division.


Education

The community is within Orange County Public Schools (OCPS).Zoning Map
" Town of Windermere. Retrieved on April 21, 2017.
Residents of the city itself are served by Windermere Elementary School, Gotha Middle School, and Olympia High School. Windermere Preparatory School, a private, coeducational PK–12 college preparatory school, is in nearby Lake Butler. The town of Windermere is not within the attendance boundaries of Windermere High School, a Lake Butler high school which opened in 2017. The Windermere town council opposed the naming on the grounds that area residents may mistakenly confuse the school with Windermere Preparatory. Some OCPS board members also argued the school should not be named for a community it will not be located in; they stated that not very many students from the town of Windermere will go to Windermere High.


Transportation

Windermere is located on an
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between several lakes in the Lake Butler chain. As such, it is on the shortest road route between the east and west sides of the chain. In fact, the next crossing to the south is distant at Lake Buena Vista, where County Road 535 (CR 535) and Apopka-Vineland Road meet. The next crossing to the north is at
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, the north end of the chain of lakes, away. 2003
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(AADT), much of which is
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s passing through, is 17,197 vehicles per day for Sixth Avenue (the east entrance), 18,362 on Main Street north of Sixth Avenue, and 9,484 on Main Street south of Sixth Avenue. Windermere regulates traffic and encourages traffic to use alternate routes. In 2004, two roundabouts were installed downtown with the largest public works project in the town's history. This has greatly improved traffic flow and relieved cut through traffic. A third roundabout was completed in August 2010 at the intersection of Park Avenue and Maguire Road. This is at the Windermere Elementary School intersection. All roads in the downtown area (laid out in a
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) are
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s except for a few through roads: *Main Street from the northern boundary (as Maguire Road, which heads north to Ocoee) south to 12th Street; the pavement turns west at 12th Street onto Chase Road, which connects to CR 535 *Sixth Avenue east from Main Street to the town line, where it becomes Conroy-Windermere Road *Second Avenue west from Main Street (serves a
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) *"Dirt Main Street", just west of Main Street (opposite where the railroad used to run), from Third Avenue to Seventh Avenue *Several other paved roads exist in the outskirts, in areas that have been
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since the original town was formed. Until the 1980s, Main Street north of Sixth Avenue and Sixth Avenue east of Main Street were maintained by the
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(FDOT) as part of State Road 439. This was given to Orange County as County Road 439 (CR 439), and Orange County eventually removed all signs and gave the part inside Windermere to the town. Signs put up by FDOT still mark the north end of CR 439 at SR 50, but no other signs exist, in part because Orange County has a general policy of not signing
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s. The Florida Midland Railroad, part of the
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, used to run just west of Main Street; there is now a large grassy area between Main Street and the dirt road (often called ''Dirt Main Street'') that ran just west of the railroad. Windermere had a station on the railroad.


Notable people

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, professional
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basketball player * Johnny Damon, former professional
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baseball player * Jay Garner, retired general *
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, professional MLB baseball player * Rick Goings, chairman and chief executive officer of Tupperware Brands Corporation * Ken Griffey Jr., Hall of Fame former professional MLB baseball player * Adam Haseley, professional MLB baseball player *
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, former professional NBA basketball player * Skip Kendall, professional golfer * Gugu Liberato, TV presenter * Kyle Masson, racing driver * Brad Miller, professional MLB baseball player * Julianne Morris, actress *
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house, and former owner of the Orlando Predators * Jackie Siegel, model and actress, owner and director of Mrs. Florida America beauty pageant * Trevor Siemian, professional NFL football player * Philip Michael Thomas, actor and musician *
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, musician for the rock bands
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, and Tremonti * Llandel Veguilla, reggaeton artist, also known as
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, from the Wisin y Yandel duo * Bubba Watson, professional golfer * Jason Williams, former professional NBA basketball player * Jesse Winker, professional MLB baseball player *
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See also

* 1890 Windermere School * Cal Palmer Memorial Building * Windermere Town Hall * 9/11 Memorial (Windermere, Florida)


References


External links


Town of Windermere Official Website
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