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Osceola County, Florida

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10historic places

—earliest paper

1887formed

388,656pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Kissimmee, St. Cloud.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Osceola titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Colonial Estate	Kissimmee	Building	1994
First United Methodist Church	Kissimmee	Building	1994
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall	St. Cloud	Building	1997
Kissimmee Historic District	Kissimmee	District	1994
Monument of States	Kissimmee	Object	2015
Old Holy Redeemer Catholic Church	Kissimmee	Building	1994
Osceola County Courthouse	Kissimmee	Building	1977
St. Cloud Depot	St. Cloud	Building	2018
St. Cloud Downtown Historic District	St. Cloud	District	2023
Veterans Memorial Library and Woman's Club of St. Cloud Auditorium	St. Cloud	Building	2020

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Osceola was formed in 1887 (1887-07-11) from Brevard, Orange.

OSCEOLA created from BREVARD and ORANGE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Osceola County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,133	3,444	7,195	10,119	11,406	19,029	49,287	172,493	388,656

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Barber Cemetery	28.32234	-81.32914
East Lake Cemetery	28.33645	-81.30599
Howard Cemetery	28.32832	-81.40294
Mount Peace Cemetery	28.24865	-81.26205
Narcoossee Arthur Fell Cemetery	28.30001	-81.2259
Osceola Memory Gardens Cemetary	28.30483	-81.37431
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	28.17984	-81.43916
Rosehill Cemetery	28.30612	-81.37701

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Tohopikaliga	28.28362	-81.26646

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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