City of Winter Springs 

34,621 Residents (est.)
13,533 Households (est.)

13 Beautiful Parks
8 High Rated Schools
Magnificent Landscaping
Incorporated in 1959


Mayor John F. Bush

Top 100 rank: 31
Population: 34,600
Compare Winter Springs to Top 10 Best Places of the US

Message To The Residents Arbor Day City of Winter Springs Annual Arbor Day Celebration The 2008 Arbor Day Celebration will be held on April 26, 2008 from 9AM to 12PM.  Please click here to download (.pdf) the registration form. Women's Personal Safety Classes 2008 Women's Personal Safety Flyer The Winter Springs Police Department will be holding women's personal safety classes. Click on the link above to find out more information. Parking Survey On-Street Parking Survey The Winter Springs Police Department is currently collecting data concerning on-street parking in the following neighborhoods Oak Forest, Mt. Greenwood, and North Orlando Terrace. If you are currently living in any of those neighborhoods, you are encouraged to take this short survey regarding on-street parking. Your results will be sent over to Captain Glenn Tolleson of the Winter Springs Police Department. Property Tax Reform Click here to read important information about Constitutional Tax Reform Amendment #1 Click here to read a letter from Mayor Bush concerning property tax reform State of the City Click here to view the Mayor's PowerPoint Presentation on the State of the City. Winter Springs Ranked #2 in Florida and #31 in US as Best Place to Live

Often referred to by the news media as the "sleeping giant" because of its land Winter Springs can trace its history back to the 1600s.

The tract of land now known as Winter Springs was historically designated the Levy Grant when it was deed in 1611 to Moses B. Levy by the King of Spain for supplying horsefeed for the King's calvary in the war fought over the Florida peninsula.

From that time till 1956, the land lay dormant, a placid area of scrub pines, palmetto trees and swamps, until Raymond Moss and William Edgemon surveyed the tract for its' financial potential.  Moss and Edgemon purchased the land under the name of the North Orlando Company in the year 1957.  The North Orlando Company was a subsidiary of the Silver Creek Precision Company, Silver Creek, New York.

The first residents, some 300 in all moved into the homes in 1959.  The area was incorporated that same year by the Florida legislature as the Village of North Orlando.

The year 1970 marked the beginnings of the Village's most dramatic changes.  North Orlando contained at that time. 300 or so homes located on either side of 434 and area of 1-5 acre lots known as the Ranchlands, one store known appropriately as the North Orlando Super Market and one building on SR 434 owned by Florida Land Company which housed the Water Company's Office, offices for Florida Land Company employees and an office used by the Village as a City Hall.

Folks who remember "back when" still talk of the cramped smoke-filled room that served the village City Hall, Building Department, Fire and Police Station, Public Works, and Court.

From 1971 through the next few years, progress really took an upswing.  Building boomed with Meadowlark, the Terraces, Hacienda Mobile Home Park, and other areas of construction taking shape.

During that same period the area now known as Tuscawilla, formerly the Winter Springs Development was annexed into the City, thereby almost doubling the City's land area, making it the largest land area in Seminole County.

Growing up in Seminole county, we would go horsebackriding with our friends in the Ranchlands, and I remember learning how to drive when the dirt roads were being put into The Highlands. It was a small town then!  Swimming was done in all the lakes because they were clean back then!  You would much rather go swimming in the lake then go to someone's house with a pool and swim in chlorinated water.