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Welcome to Orville ...

So far, we found very little information about Orville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Orville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Orville - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Orville, please Contact Us.


While we don't have the exact location of Orville , we believe that it would have been located within present day La Paz County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Orville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1880.

Time Zone: The area where Orville was located is in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time

The Area Code where Orville was located: 928

Communities Also Named Orville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 10 communities that are also named Orville - they are located in Kentucky, Louisiana, Manitoba, Michigan (3), North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Orville.

Adding Orville to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Orville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Orville post office opened in 1880.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Orville.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Orville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Arizona's counties, including La Paz, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/