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Orange, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77630. It lies near Coopers Gulley. The Survey maps it on the Orange quadrangle. 19,324 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Orange within Orange County

On record in Orange

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Orange grew from 18,595 to 19,324 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201018,595
202019,324+729 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Orange between 1999 and 2002, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
7 October 2002Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 209

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Orange: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Orange PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
R A Mann Bayon Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alpha Portland Clay PitClayProducer
Orange PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

60 of 61 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange in 61 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 33 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 11 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998LightningOrange1 hurt, $10,000no account filed
September 1998Flash FloodOrange$100,000no account filed
September 1998Flash FloodOrange$50,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindOrange$35,000no account filed
May 2006Flash FloodWest Orange$25,000no account filed
May 2006Flash FloodOrange$25,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindOrange$25,000no account filed
August 2001Flash FloodOrange$20,000no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Orange$10,000A tin roof was blown off a hair salon. Numerous power outages were also reported.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindOrange$10,000Trees blew down on a parked van and car.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindOrange$10,000Trees were blown down on a parked van and car.
July 2006Flash FloodOrange$10,000no account filed
December 2002Flash FloodOrange$10,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindOrange$10,000no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindOrange$10,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindOrange$10,000no account filed
June 1999Flash FloodOrange$10,000no account filed
August 1998Flash FloodOrange$10,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOrange$10,000no account filed
December 2020Thunderstorm WindOrange$5,000Trees were downed by wind and a home had roof damage.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindOrange$5,000Multiple pictures were sent into Beaumont media of fallen trees and large broken limbs around Bridge City and Orange after a line of thunderstorms moved through the county.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindOrange$5,000no account filed
December 2002Thunderstorm WindOrange$5,000no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindOrange$5,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOrange$5,000no account filed
April 2000HailOrange$5,000no account filed
August 1997Heavy RainOrange$5,000no account filed
October 1997FloodOrange$5,000no account filed
September 2025Thunderstorm WindWest Orange$2,000Multiple trees were blown down on 37th Street in the Pinehurst neighborhood of Orange County.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindOrange$2,000Multiple trees and limbs were blown down in Orange from a passing storm.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindOrange$2,000Trees were blown down onto Main and International streets.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOrange$2,000Multiple reports were received from around the city of Orange of trees and tree limbs down. Reports were relayed by the Orange Police Department.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindOrange$2,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindOrange$2,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOrange$2,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOrange$2,000no account filed
October 2025Thunderstorm WindWest Orange$1,000A large tree limb was blown onto the roof of a home.
July 2012LightningOrange$1,000Entergy reported around 150 customers were without power in Orange due to a lightning strike.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOrange-Construction barriers were blown onto interstate along with multiple signs blown down.
May 2019HailWest Orange-A photo of 1 inch hail was posted to social media.
December 2018Flash FloodOrange-TXDOT reported flooded roads near downtown Orange after 3 to 6 inches of rain occurred.
January 2017HailOrange-The Orange Police Department reported a mix of dime to quarter size hail.
January 2017HailOrange-Golf ball size hail reported in Orange.
October 2015Flash FloodWest Orange-Heavy rain lingered over the City of Orange for a few hours. High rainfall rates produced significant street flooding around the city.
May 2013HailOrange-Quarter sized hail was reported in Orange with a passing storm.
May 2013HailOrange-Nickel sized hail was reported with a passing storm.
March 2011HailWest Orange-Public reported quarter size hail south of Little Cypress.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindOrange-Numerous reports were received of power lines down across the city of Orange.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindOrange-Numerous trees and power lines down reported by sheriff.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindOrange-Many trees down in the city of Orange.
April 1995HailOrange-Marble to penny-sized hail was reported intermittently throughout the whole county by DPS Orange.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindOrange-Orange reported many tree limbs down in and around the city.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindOrange-Sheriffs Office reports trees uprooted.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOrange-Damaging winds blew trees and power lines down.
May 2008HailOrange-no account filed
May 2008HailOrange-no account filed
November 2004Thunderstorm WindOrange-no account filed
November 2001HailOrange-no account filed
April 2000HailOrange-no account filed
February 1998HailOrange-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bruner1.0 miles16
Bland1.1 miles16
West Orange1.4 miles16
Brownwood1.5 miles19
Pine Grove1.6 miles16
Cove1.6 miles19
Doc Brown1.7 miles16
Francis2.1 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on OrangeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982388The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1375304. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.