{"id":274000,"date":"2026-05-17T04:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:23:19","slug":"sinkhole-formed-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274000\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole Formed in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sinkhole formed in Orange County.<\/p>\n

The mid-sized sinkhole opened on N Wymore Road between Maitland Boulevard and Oranole Road, which is a county road that is located within the city of Maitland in Central Florida.<\/p>\n

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The Orange County roads and drainage team responded to the scene and coordinated road closures activities with the city of Maitland staff and the Maitland Police Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cSinkholes usually happen when underground soil and rock are washed away and form subterranean cavities,\u201d Orange County Commissioner Kelly Martinez Semrad shared.<\/p>\n

A geotechnical consultant was onsite for an evaluation and the road will be closed while teams assess the damage and make repairs. A traffic alert was issued and a detour route was established. Drivers should use Lake Destiny Road west of I-4 or Maitland Avenue east of I-4 as alternate routes, according to officials.<\/p>\n

Orange County said it will share an update when the roadway reopens.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Orange County government is asking the Central Florida community to have patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sinkhole formed in Orange County. The mid-sized sinkhole opened on N Wymore Road between Maitland Boulevard and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,3973,4774,1335,139,141,140,724,58075,729],"class_list":["post-274000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-closed","tag-maitland","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-road","tag-sinkhole","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}