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Orchards is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in southern Clark County, Washington, immediately north of the city limits of Vancouver.

The community was originally known as Fourth Plain, a name dating to an 1846 Hudson's Bay Company survey in which Dugald McTavish numbered four plains near Fort Vancouver.

Residents voted in 1904 to rename the community Orchards, after the many fruit trees growing in the area.

The Census Bureau first listed Orchards as a CDP in the 1980 census; it was split into Orchards North and Orchards South CDPs for 1990 and recombined as a single CDP in 2000.

Orchards counted 27,729 residents in the 2020 census — more people than every incorporated city in Clark County except Vancouver.

The 2020 census recorded 9,392 households and 9,722 housing units in Orchards, after the population grew 41.8% between 2010 and 2020.

Orchards covers 5.4 square miles, bordered by Vancouver to the south, Brush Prairie to the north, Hockinson to the northeast, and Five Corners to the west.

The neighborhood of Sifton lies in the southern part of the Orchards CDP.

Most Orchards students attend schools in the Evergreen School District, with parts of the CDP in the Battle Ground and Hockinson school districts.

Orchards keeps its own post office and ZIP Code, 98682, despite having no city government of its own.