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More historic than 38% of U.S. towns · #119 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of Oviedo was built recently: 0.8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1997. 5 places in town are on the National Register, among them two historic districts with 7 buildings between them. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1930.
The Oviedo post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1925. Another post office, Lake Charm (1886), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
More historic than 38% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Oviedo is more historic than 38% of U.S. towns, #119 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Oviedo’s 4.2 sits above most of its state (80% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 17 historic buildings outnumber those of 79% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Oviedo’s history is told.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
From Wikipedia’s history of Oviedo.
Up through the early 19th century, the area encompassing Oviedo was sparsely populated save for a few Seminoles and African-American freemen who associated with the Seminole tribe, known as Black Seminoles, in what was then Spanish Florida. The Seminole tribe had larger clusters of population in other areas of Central Florida, such as nearby Lake Jesup.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereHal King is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
Born hereRyan Carpenter is born here
Born hereJeff Driskel is born here
2019Oviedo FL Calvin Whitney-Wyatt House03
2019Oviedo FL Calvin Whitney-Wyatt House02
2019Oviedo FL Calvin Whitney-Wyatt House01
2014CRI intro-photo
2012Sunset on Lake Jesup
2008Sunset on Lake Jesup, Oviedo, Florida
2007Oviedo Wheeler-Evans shroom02
2007Oviedo Wheeler-Evans shroom01
2007Oviedo Wheeler-Evans ring01
2007Oviedo Wheeler-Evans House02
2004FLMap-doton-Oviedo
2002Road photo from June 15, 2002 72Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Oviedo. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Oviedo.
Grew from 1,042 people in 1930 to 40,059 in 2020, more than tenfold.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Oviedo’s Wikipedia page.
Oviedo’s post office has been open since 1879. Another post office, Lake Charm, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Oviedo post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1925.
Oviedo is more historic than 38% of U.S. towns, #119 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
5 listings: 3 buildings, among them the Browne-King House (listed 2001, the first), and 2 historic districts, the Estes, R.W. Celery Company Precooler Historic District and the Nelson and Company Historic District, with 7 contributing buildings. 17 historic buildings in all.
0.8% of Oviedo’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1997.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (5), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
