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Orange is the easternmost city in Texas, sitting on the Sabine River at the Louisiana border about 113 miles east of Houston, and it is the county seat of Orange County.

Orange began as Green's Bluff, named for Sabine River boatman Resin Green, was renamed Madison in 1840 for President James Madison, and took the name Orange in 1858 from an orange grove owned by George Patillo.

Orange became the county seat when Orange County was organized in 1852, and it forms the 'Golden Triangle' industrial region together with Beaumont and Port Arthur.

Orange counted 19,324 residents and 7,870 households in the 2020 census, and Census Bureau surveys since then put its households at roughly 7,100 with about 59% of homes owner-occupied.

Orange is a deep-water port on the Sabine River, connected to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and its harbor was first dredged in 1914 to build ships for World War I.

Orange boomed during World War II, when shipbuilding swelled the greater area's population to roughly 60,000, and after the war the U.S. Navy kept a naval station and mothball fleet there.

Orange's population peaked at 28,960 in 1976, during its years as a major lumber, shipbuilding, and petrochemical center.

The Stark Museum of Art, opened in Orange in 1978, holds a significant collection of Western Americana and works by artists such as Frederic Remington and John James Audubon.

The W. H. Stark House, built in 1894, is a 14,000-square-foot Victorian mansion in Orange that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Orange is home to Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, a 252-acre garden with more than 300 plant species, created by lumber magnate H. J. Lutcher Stark.