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History · Orangeville Township

Orangeville Township’s post office opened in 1849

Most of Orangeville Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2003. Below: maps from 1949 on and the census since 1890.

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How Orangeville Township began

When was Orangeville Township founded?

1849

The Orangeville Township post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Orangeville (1849), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 749 in 18902020 census: 726177 years
Founding year: the first Orangeville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Orangeville Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Orangeville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1849: 177 years of Orangeville Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Orangeville Township’s history is told.

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Timeline

Orangeville Township, 1849 to 1949

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1849Post officeThe Orangeville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1907Post officeThe Orangeville post office closes
  5. 1949On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Orangeville Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Orangeville Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Orangeville Township is one of ten townships in Orange County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 726 and it contained 275 housing units.

Its first post office opened in 1849. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 658 to 726 (+10%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Orangeville Township on the map, 1949 to 1993

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Orangeville Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Orangeville Township on the 1949 USGS mapOrangeville Township on the 1951 USGS mapOrangeville Township on the 1965 USGS mapOrangeville Township on the 1989 USGS mapOrangeville Township on the 1993 USGS map1949Georgia sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Orangeville Township.

People over time

Orangeville Township, census by census

02004006008001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 749

Between 463 and 749 people in every census since 1890.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Orangeville Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Orangeville Township

Nobody well known was born in Orangeville Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Larry BirdAmerican basketball player and coach · b. 1956
Margaret HamiltonAmerican NASA scientist and mathematician · b. 1936
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Gus GrissomAmerican astronaut · b. 1926
David L. CornwellAmerican politician · b. 1945
Harry A. MillisAmerican economist · b. 1873
Wilford Bacon HoggattAmerican naval officer and sixth Governor of th… · b. 1865
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Orangeville, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Orangeville
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Orangeville Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Paoli Township5 historic placesAOrleans Township3 historic placesAFrench Lick Township9 historic placesANorthwest TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Orangeville Township’s history

What year was Orangeville Township founded?

The Orangeville Township post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.