Orange, Texas Orange, Texas City Water fortress in Orange, Texas Water fortress in Orange, Texas Location of Orange, Texas Location of Orange, Texas Orange County Orange.svg County Orange City Council Mayor Jimmy Sims City Manager Shawn Oubre Orange is a town/city in Orange County, Texas, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 18,595.
It is the governmental center of county of Orange County, and is the easternmost town/city in Texas.
Located on the Sabine River at the border with Louisiana, Orange is 113 miles from Houston and is part of the Beaumont Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.
A short time later, in 1840, the town was retitled Madison with respect to President James Madison. To resolve the incessant postal service confusion with another Texas improve called Madisonville, the town was retitled "Orange" in 1858.
The region experienced rapid expansion in the late 19th century due to 17 sawmills inside the town/city limits, making Orange the center of the Texas lumber industry. Orange's expansion led to the arrival of many immigrants in the late 19th century, including a moderately-sized Jewish populace by 1896. In 1898, the County assembled a courthouse in the city, which eventually burned down and was replaced by the Orange County Courthouse.
The harbor dominant into the Port of Orange was dredged in 1914 to accommodate large ships.
The Great Depression, not surprisingly, affected the town/city negatively, and it was not until World War II that the small-town economy was boosted again.
At this time, the Navy Department announced it chose Orange as one of eight locations where it would store reserve vessels.
The Port of Orange became the home to the USS Orleck (DD-886), one of the several naval ships remaining that was assembled at the Orange shipyards amid WWII.
The town/city of Orange sustained a direct hit from Hurricane Rita in 2005, causing damage to the ship.
The town/city decreed that the ship be moved because, as it claimed, the town/city needed the dock space.
The Orleck was not allowed to return to the port due to politics (as the town/city council was wanting the ship cut up and sold for scrap and had a long running feud with the Restoration Association) so a new locale was sought, including one in Arkansas and Lake Charles, Louisiana, for a new home.
On May 6, 2009, the Lake Charles town/city council voted in favor of an ordinance authorizing the town/city to enter into a "Cooperative Endeavor Agreement" with the "USS ORLECK".
Orange was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ike on September 13, 2008. Damage was widespread and harsh across Orange County.
The 22-foot (6.7 m) storm surge breached the city's levees, caused catastrophic flooding and obliterated everything in its path.
The storm surge traveled up the Neches River to also flood Rose City.
Orange received winds at hurricane force.
Nearly the entire town/city of 19,000 citizens was flooded, anywhere from 6 inches (15 cm) to 15 feet (4.5 m). The mayor of the town/city said about 375 citizens , of those who stayed behind amid the storm, began to emerge, some needing food, water and medical care. Many dead fish littered streets and properties. Neighbor Bridge City Mayor Kirk Roccaforte estimated that only 14 homes in the town/city were unaffected by the surge, five of which were in the Oakview addition on Louise Street in Bridge City.
The piles of debris and waterlogged furniture placed outside homes by inhabitants beginning to clean up led the mayor to say "The whole town/city looks like a flea market." During the post-storm cleanup, Bridge City inhabitants found swimming pools had been occupied by jellyfish brought inland with the water. Three citizens were found dead in Orange County on September 29. The Orange Leader, https://orangeleader.com/ Orange is positioned at 30 6 33 N 93 45 33 W (30.109217, -93.759133). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 20.8 square miles (54 km2), of which, 20.1 square miles (52 km2) of it is territory and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) of it (3.32%) is water.
Orange has a humid subtropical climate.
The record high in Orange is 105 F or 40.6 C recorded August 10, 1962.
Orange records about 60 inches or 1,500 millimetres of precipitation per year.
Climate data for Orange, Texas As of the census of 2010, there were 18,595 citizens , 7,585 homeholds, and 5,021 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 60.9% White, 33.2% African American, 0.3% Native American, 1.7% Asian, NA% Pacific Islander, 1.08% from other competitions, and 2.0% from two or more competitions.
In Orange, the populace is 24.8% under the age of 18, and 15.9% who are 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $41,494.
The per capita income for the town/city was $24,449.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Orange District Parole Office in Orange. The United States Postal Service operates the Orange Post Office in Orange. The town/city operates under the council-manager form of government.
The City of Orange is served by the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Consolidated Independent School District, the West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District, Bridge City Independent School District, and the Orangefield Independent School District.
Lamar State College-Orange is a improve college and part of the Texas State University System.
The City of Orange hosts a several cultural attractions.
Stark House preserves the early days of Orange and lumber barons.
Orange Community Players is a non-profit improve theater positioned athwart the street from the historic courthouse.
Orange is served by Interstate 10, as well as a deep-water seaport.
Commercial aviation service is positioned at close-by Southeast Texas Regional Airport, and general aviation service is provided by Orange County Airport.
Orange has the distinct ion of having Exit 880 on Interstate 10 inside its town/city limits, which is the highest numbered exit and mile marker on an interstate highway or freeway in North America.
"ORANGE, TX | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)".
TSHA Online - Texas State Historical Association "Orange Texas, Historic Orange Texas, Orange Texas Hotels.".
"Orange, Texas", found in the Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities, TSHA Online - Texas State Historical Association "Bridge City inhabitants try to dry out, clean up".
"Monthly Averages for Orange, TX".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Savage, John (August 10, 2016).
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