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Orangeville is a borough in Columbia County that was laid out in 1822 and incorporated in 1900.

The town was planned by Clemuel G. Ricketts, a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, who laid out the community near Knob Mountain, starting with a house and a tannery.

At a town meeting around 1824, the name Orangeville was chosen over candidates like Knobtown, Rickettsville, and The Trap, in honor of Orange County, New York, and Orange, New Jersey, where many of the settlers had come from.

Orangeville's post office opened in 1826, only a few years after the town was laid out.

In 1853 a factory making plows and grain-threshers opened in Orangeville, and the later Conner Agricultural Implement Works became the borough's chief employer for years; after it burned in June 1914, it was rebuilt in concrete on a firmer footing.

The Sterling Shoe Company set up shop in Orangeville in 1908 and at one time employed about twenty men.

Orangeville is completely surrounded by Orange Township, a separate municipality, and the borough covers just 0.46 square miles.

Orangeville's population peaked at 508 at the 2010 census; at the 2000 census its 500 residents lived in just 146 households, and recent Census Bureau estimates put the population just under 480.

Orangeville is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick Micropolitan Statistical Area and is home to the Orangeville Public Library.

Orangeville students attend the Central Columbia School District, whose Fighting Blue Jays teams represent a district of about 2,100 students drawn from the borough and six surrounding townships.