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Orderville is a town in western Kane County, Utah, in the Long Valley formed by the East Fork of the Virgin River, and it had a population of 598 at the 2020 census.

Orderville was founded in 1875 at the direction of LDS Church president Brigham Young specifically to live the United Order, a voluntary form of communal living, and it was incorporated in 1934 and named for the United Order.

Orderville was settled primarily by destitute refugees from failed settlements on the Muddy River in Nevada, and it began completely debt-free with 335 acres of land, 18 houses, 19 oxen, 103 cows, 43 horses, 500 sheep, 30 hogs, 400 chickens, and 30,000 feet of lumber.

Under the United Order, no person in Orderville could hold private property, and a community dining hall that began operation on July 24, 1875, prepared meals for more than 80 families, with credits recorded for all work done by men, women, and children.

Orderville was unique among United Order communities for both its success and the duration of the experiment: it grew to about 700 people, became self-sufficient, and produced a surplus for sale to other communities.

Orderville's settlers grew their own crops, made their own soap, brooms, buckets, and furniture, produced silk thread and wove it into clothing, and later opened their own tannery, with physician Priddy Meeks arriving in 1876 to serve as the settlement's doctor.

The Pants Rebellion began when a young man secretly traded wool collected from docked lamb tails for a pair of store-bought cotton pants in Nephi, and the ensuing excitement eventually led the Elders to import cotton cloth and allow tailors to make cotton pants in new styles.

The communal dining system was abandoned in 1880, and enforcement of the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882 effectively ended the Order in 1885, though Orderville continued its tannery, wool factory, and sheep enterprise under the Board of Management until 1889.

Orderville covers about 8.72 square miles, all land, at an elevation of about 5,449 feet, and its ZIP code is 84758.

Orderville's current limits include the former incorporated communities of Mount Carmel and Mount Carmel Junction, and from Mount Carmel Junction, Utah State Route 9 leads west 23 miles to Zion National Park, while U.S. Route 89 runs through the town.