Orangeville, Pennsylvania

Orangeville is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 508 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg - Berwick Micropolitan Statistical Area.HistoryIn 1822, the Ohio native Clemuel G. Ricketts made a plan to set up a community near Knob Mountain, although there were settlers in the area before that time. This community became Orangeville. Soon after the town was laid out, several buildings, including a house and a tannery, were erected in the area. Once five or six houses were built in the town, a post office was built there. Several names were originally considered for the community, including Knobtown, Rickettsville, and The Trap, but Orangeville was chosen after Orange County, New York, and Orange, New Jersey. In 1853, a business making plows and grain-threshers was built in the community. Orangeville was incorporated in 1900.GeographyOrangeville is located north of the center of Columbia County at. It is entirely surrounded by Orange Township, a separate municipality. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.2km2, of which 0.02sqkm, or 1.84%, is water.