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Welcome to Orange Home ...

Orange Home is located in Sumter County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Orange Home, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1884.

Orange Home is 60 feet [18 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Orange Home lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Orange Home: 352

Communities near Orange Home ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Orange Home.

  • Leesburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Eustis
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Tavares
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Lady Lake
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Fruitland Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Inverness
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Wildwood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Mascotte
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Belleview
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Bushnell
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Orange Home. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Orange Home.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Orange Home. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Orange Home.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Orange Home. See our Newspapers Page for Orange Home.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Orange Home ...

Looking for more information about Orange Home? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Orange Home, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Orange Home.

Adding Orange Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Orange Home in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Orange Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Orange Home post office opened in 1884.

We also found Orange Home in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Orange Home.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Florida's counties, including Sumter, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Orange Home - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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