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Tangerine is a census-designated place in northwest Orange County, Florida, about four miles south of Mount Dora, and part of the Orlando-Kissimmee metropolitan area.

Tangerine was first settled in the mid-1870s as 'Olaville,' when citrus pioneer Dudley W. Adams arrived in northwest Orange County.

In 1879, at a neighborhood meeting in the home of Bessie Heustis, the settlement was renamed Tangerine, inspired by the fruit of the tangerine tree growing by her doorstep.

Local women founded the Tangerine Improvement Society in 1909, and its hall, Johnston Hall, was dedicated in 1977 after the original 1912 community hall burned down.

Tangerine's population exploded in the 2000s, jumping from just 826 people in 2000 to 2,865 in 2010 - a rise of nearly 247% - before reaching 3,237 at the 2020 census.

Tangerine has 1,196 households spread across about 5.3 square miles, roughly 14% of which is water, giving the community a lake-dotted, semi-rural feel on Orlando's edge.

Trimble Park, an Orange County park set between Lake Beauclaire and Lake Carlton, was gifted to the county in the 1920s by Tangerine resident Sadie Trimble.

Tangerine was the adopted home of novelist Harry Hart Frank, who wrote the classic 1959 post-apocalyptic novel 'Alas, Babylon' under the pen name Pat Frank.