Orange Park, Florida Orange Park, Florida Top, left to right: Town Hall, Club Continental, Orange Park Mall, Best Bet, Doctors Lake, the Buckman Bridge viewed from Orange Park Top, left to right: Town Hall, Club Continental, Orange Park Mall, Best Bet, Doctors Lake, the Buckman Bridge viewed from Orange Park Location in Clay County and the state of Florida Location in Clay County and the state of Florida Orange Park 1877 Orange Park is a town in Clay County, Florida, United States, and a suburb of Jacksonville.
The populace was 8,412 at the 2010 census. The name "Orange Park" is extraly applied to a wider region of northern Clay County outside the town limits, covering such communities as Fleming Island, Lakeside, and Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace.
Even with recovery elsewhere, the crops never came back to Orange Park.
Orange Park sign in the 1890s.
Orange Park in the late 18th century was known simply as Laurel Grove.
The Town of Orange Park was established in 1877 by the Florida Winter Home and Improvement Company.
Orange Park is positioned in the northeast corner of Clay County on the St.
Johns River at 30 10 7 N 81 42 31 W (30.168569, -81.708479). Orange Park is a suburb of Jacksonville and is positioned adjoining to the southern limits of the city.
The region known as Greater Orange Park encompasses the unincorporated communities of Fleming Island, Ridgewood, Doctors Inlet, Orange Park South, Lakeside, and Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 5.3 square miles (13.7 km2), of which 3.6 square miles (9.4 km2) is territory and 1.7 square miles (4.4 km2) of it, or 31.71%, is water. Orange Park Elementary School, assembled in 1927, continues to operate a several blocks from the river.
In addition, mirroring Jacksonville, the town has one of the highest percentage of Filipino Americans in the state of Florida.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 21.0% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 21.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $47,631, and the median income for a family was $58,093.
Orange Park is positioned inside the Clay County School District and is home to three enhance elementary schools and two enhance junior high schools, and lastly 3 high schools.
An additional ten enhance elementary schools, two enhance junior high schools, and three enhance high schools are positioned outside the town limits. Orange Park is also home to a several private schools and to Fortis College, a for-profit two-year college.
Johns River Community College has an Orange Park ground for a two-year or four-year college degree.
Orange Park High School is the closest enhance high school, positioned 1 mile (2 km) west of the town limits.
Oakleaf High School is the second closest enhance high school, positioned approximately two miles southwest of town limits.
Ridgeview High School is the third closest, positioned about three miles south of town limits.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Orange Park town, Florida".
"Brief History of the Town of Orange Park".
Town of Orange Park official website Fortis College - Orange Park Location Municipalities and communities of Clay County, Florida, United States
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