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Orange is an incorporated town and the county seat of Orange County, Virginia, set in the rolling Piedmont about 28 miles northeast of Charlottesville.

The town is named in honor of William IV, Prince of Orange, and it was known as Orange Court House until it officially shortened its name to Orange in 1890.

Orange became the county's judicial seat in 1749, when Culpeper County was cut off from Orange County and the courthouse was moved to this more central location.

The present Orange County Courthouse, completed in 1859 in the Italian Villa style at the corner of Madison Road and Main Street, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Virginia General Assembly passed a first incorporation act for the town in 1834, but Orange was not officially organized as a town until 1872.

The 2020 census counted 4,880 residents in Orange, a 3.4 percent increase over the 4,721 people counted in 2010.

The 2020 census recorded 1,943 households and 2,172 housing units within the town's roughly 3.4 square miles.

During the Civil War, Orange served as headquarters for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who worshipped at St. Thomas Episcopal Church (built in 1833); the church also served as a hospital for Confederate wounded after Chancellorsville and the Wilderness.

James Madison's Montpelier plantation, home of the fourth U.S. president, lies about four miles west of the town.

A fire in 1909 destroyed much of the eastern part of town, yet many 19th-century buildings survive in the Orange Commercial Historic District, and seven places in town are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.