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- ↑ City of Orlando GIS: Map Gallery, accessed May 2014
- ↑ City of Orlando GIS: Annexation by Decade Archived 2014-07-13 at the Wayback Machine , January 2014
- ↑ City of Orlando GIS: Orlando Annexations Archived 2014-05-08 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 "An Act to Extend the Corporate Limits of the City of Orlando, Florida". Act No. 1146 (Chapter 24760) of 1947.
- ↑ Ordinance Archived 2014-05-08 at the Wayback Machine (ANX2006-00009)
- ↑ Ordinance No. 2010-13 Archived 2014-05-08 at the Wayback Machine (ANX2010-00001)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ordinances of the City of Orlando, Florida, October 1, 1893 ( OCLC 1738440): "It was decided at said election [July 31, 1875]... that its boundaries should be, 'one mile due east, one mile due west, one mile due north and one mile due south (from the court house) forming a square;'" (map)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 City of Orlando GIS: Local Historic Districts
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "An Act to Extend the Corporate Limits of the City of Orlando and to Give the said City of Orlando Jurisdiction Over the Territory Embraced in said Extension". Act No. 327 (Chapter 11662) of 1925.
- 1 2 3 4 City of Orlando GIS: National Register Historic Districts
- ↑ Reprint of the Comprehensive City Plan: Orlando, Florida, December 1959 ( OCLC 1724521)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "An Act to Change the Boundaries of the City of Orlando, in Orange County". Act No. 259 (Chapter 6378) of 1911. (map)
- 1 2 "An Act to Extend the Corporate Limits of the City of Orlando Florida". Act No. 1146 (Chapter 24761) of 1947.
- ↑ Ordinance Archived 2014-05-08 at the Wayback Machine (ANX2004-00021)
- ↑ Ordinance No. 2013-57 (ANX2013-00008)
- ↑ Ordinance No. 2013-54 (ANX2013-00004)
- ↑ Proposed Southeast Sector Plan, April 2014 (p. 7)
