Orange County, Texas

administration
Orange County Courthouse
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	orange
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Orange County Courthouse P.O. Box 1536 Orange, TX 77631
Foundation :	1852
Made up from:	Jefferson County
Area code :	001 409
Demographics
Residents :	81,837 (2010)
Population density :	88.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	983 km²
Water surface :	60 km²
map

Website : www.co.orange.tx.us

The Orange County is a county in the US state of Texas . The county seat is in Orange .

geography

The county is located in the far east of Texas at the confluence of the Sabine River and the Neches River with Sabine Lake . The Sabine River and Sabine Lake, a lagoon on the Gulf of Mexico , form the border with Louisiana . It has an area of 923 square kilometers, of which 60 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties and parishes border Orange County:

Hardin County	Jasper County , Newton County
		Calcasieu Parish (Louisiana)
Jefferson County		Cameron Parish (Louisiana)

history

Orange County was formed on February 5, 1852 from former parts of Jefferson County. The name of the county is descriptive and refers to a certain orange grove on the Neches River .

Seven structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of March 27, 2020, including the Joseph and Annie Lucas House , the Sims House, and the WH Stark House .

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	1916	-
1870	1255	-34.5%
1880	2938	134.1%
1890	4770	62.4%
1900	5905	23.8%
1910	9528	61.4%
1920	15,379	61.4%
1930	15,149	-1.5%
1940	17,382	14.7%
1950	40,567	133.4%
1960	60,357	48.8%
1970	71,170	17.9%
1980	83,838	17.8%
1990	80.509	-4%
2000	84,966	5.5%
2010	81,837	-3.7%
1860-2010

The WH Stark House , listed in the NRHP with the number 76002056

As of the 2010 census , Orange County had 81,837 people in 32,790 households. The population density was 88.7 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 86.1 percent white, 8.5 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 1.0 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 5.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race. Statistically, 2.49 people lived in each of the 32,790 households.

25.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.0 percent were 65 years or older. 50.3 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 45,532 USD . The per capita income was $ 22,826. 15.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

cities and communes

Citys

Census-designated place (CDP)

Mauriceville

Unincorporated Communities

other places

Individual evidence

↑ Orange County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.Retrieved February 22, 2011
↑ National Association of Counties ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 4, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 230.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 27, 2020.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 27, 2020.

↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB), accessed September 18, 2012

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places.Retrieved March 13, 2011