Hunter's Creek, Florida
census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, United States
Hunter's Creek is a master planned, unincorporated community and census-designated place in Orange County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 24,433 at the 2020 census. It has grown up around a large planned community named Hunter's Creek, though the CDP name given by the United States Census Bureau lacks the apostrophe.
History
Genstar Development Company based out of Canada owned a massive tract of land in south Orange County Florida totaling up to 3,840 acres. Planning of the upscale community began as early as 1984 with an official kick-off construction announcement in 1986, noting that this was a 15- to 20-year project. Genstar sold much of the remaining development in 1987 for $25,832,000 to American Newland Associates, a California general partnership. August 1997 AG Land Associates, LLC (f/k/a American Newland Associates) sells some of the undeveloped acreages to Westbrook Hunter's Creek, LP for $42,589,200. The majority of the community was built in the late 1980s and 1990s, and some of the community is still under construction.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.8 square miles (9.9 km2), all land.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hunter's Creek, Florida” is census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hunter's, Creek and Florida, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1821166. Authority coordinates are 28.357, -81.428. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1984, 1986 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hunter's Creek, Florida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.