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Seminole County, Florida

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
19historic places
—earliest paper
1913formed
470,856pop. 2020
8cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 19 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Sanford, Oviedo, Longwood.

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 Seminole titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 19 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

19 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bradlee-McIntyre HouseLongwoodBuilding1991
Browne-King HouseOviedoBuilding2001
Estes, R.W. Celery Company Precooler Historic DistrictOviedoDistrict2001
First Methodist Church of OviedoOviedoBuilding2007
Georgetown Historic DistrictSanfordDistrict2020
Hopper AcademySanfordBuilding2015
Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce BuildingLake MaryBuilding2004
Longwood Historic DistrictLongwoodDistrict1990
Longwood HotelLongwoodBuilding1984
Nelson and Company Historic DistrictOviedoDistrict2001
Nils M. and Beverly Schweizer HouseMiatlandBuilding2024
Old Fernald-Laughton Memorial HospitalSanfordBuilding1987
Ritz TheaterSanfordBuilding2001
Sanford Commercial DistrictSanfordDistrict1976
Sanford Grammar SchoolSanfordBuilding1984
Sanford Residential Historic DistrictSanfordDistrict1989
Seminole County HomeSanfordBuilding1999
St. James A. M. E. ChurchSanfordBuilding1992
Wheeler-Evans HouseOviedoBuilding2001

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Seminole was formed in 1913 (1913-04-25) from ORANGE [mistake in description corrected 31 May 1961].

SEMINOLE created from ORANGE [mistake in description corrected 31 May 1961].

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Seminole County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

471k241k11k19201960197020002020
1920194019501960198020002020
10,98622,30426,88354,947179,752365,196470,856

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Canaveral National SeashorePark unit39.7 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed
NameLatLon
Chuluota Cemetery28.62805-81.1095
Geneva Cemetery28.73654-81.10804
Highland Memory Gardens28.67139-81.44785
Longwood Memorial Gardens28.70888-81.33721
Oaklawn Memorial Park28.78499-81.34534
Restlawn Cemetery28.78749-81.28673
Sanford Cemetery28.78388-81.28645
Slavia Cemetery28.64028-81.23201

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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