Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Rangeley, ME

Rangeley is a census-designated place and the primary village in the town of Rangeley, Franklin County, Maine, with a population of 590 at the 2020 census.

Rangeley village sits in the southeast corner of the town at the northeast end of Rangeley Lake, and it is the center of the Rangeley Lakes Region, a resort area.

Maine State Route 4 runs through Rangeley village, leading southeast 40 miles to Farmington and west 7 miles to Oquossoc, while State Route 16 joins Route 4 in the village and leads northeast 19 miles to Stratton.

Rangeley was first listed as a census-designated place prior to the 2020 census, and the CDP covers 3.13 square miles, of which 2.60 square miles is land, at an elevation of 1,516 feet.

The town of Rangeley, which contains the CDP, had a population of 1,222 at the 2020 census and was incorporated on March 29, 1855, set off from a portion of Rangeley Plantation.

Rangeley is named after Squire James Rangeley, an Englishman who inherited a 31,000-acre tract bought from Massachusetts in 1796 by his father and arrived in 1825 to establish an estate.

Logging became a principal industry in Rangeley, with booms of logs towed by steamboat across the Rangeley lakes and then guided down rivers in log drives.

The Phillips and Rangeley Railroad, a narrow gauge line, opened in 1891 and became part of the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad in 1908, bringing tourists to the lakes for trout and salmon fishing.

Rangeley lies between the headwaters of both the Androscoggin River and the Kennebec River in the Western Maine Mountains, and its ZIP code is 04970.

The Rangeley Lake House, a grand hotel on the lake, was razed in 1958, but Rangeley remains a year-round resort destination.