Welcome to Orlinda ...

Orlinda is located in Linn County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Orlinda, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879.

Time Zone: Orlinda lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Orlinda: 660

Communities Also Named Orlinda ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Orlinda - it's located in Tennessee.

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

Adding Orlinda to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Orlinda in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Orlinda was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Orlinda post office opened in 1879.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Orlinda.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Linn, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/