Orange City (Florida)

Orange City is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 10,599. It is a part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, which was home to 590,289 people in 2010.GeographyOrange City is located at.According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.6km2, of which 18.3km2 is land and 0.2km2 or 1.31%, is water.HistoryOrange City was incorporated as a City in 1882. The city was named for the thousands of acres of orange groves in and around the city. Twelve years later, the Great Freeze wiped out the orange groves that the town was named for.Orange City received the “highest award that the world can give” for its water at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The infamous John D. Rockefeller, Sr. had Orange City Mineral Springs water sent to him wherever he traveled, and even used it for bathing.Historic placesSites on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange City include: Dickinson Memorial Library and Park Louis P. Thursby House Orange City Colored School Orange City Historic District Orange City Town Hall Seth French House 1876 Heritage Inn