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Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 81,837.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48361.html )〕 The county seat is Orange.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Orange County is included in the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located in the very southeastern corner of Texas, with a boundary with Louisiana, within the Golden Triangle of Texas. ==History== Orange County was formed in 1852 from portions of Jefferson County.〔(Handbook of Texas Online - ORANGE COUNTY )〕 It was named after the orange fruit, the common citrus fruit grown by the early settlers of this County near the mouth of the Sabine River.〔(History of Orange, TX )〕 Due to periodic spells of quite cold winter weather (frosts) in Orange County, it is no longer the home of orange trees and citrus orchards. The production of those fruits in Texas long ago was moved a long way southwest into the Rio Grande Valley, where the weather is almost always warm all winter long. Citrus trees produce their fruit in the wintertime, which makes them especially vulnerable to frost and icy weather. A similar thing has happened in Florida, where orchards of citrus trees no longer exist in either Citrus County or Orange County because of bad winter freezes in some years. In both Florida and Texas, the citrus agriculture has been moved farther south in search of milder winters, and away from the periodic frosts. During World War II, Orange County was the home of a large amount of shipbuilding for the navies the United States and allied countries. The major shipbuilder, the Consolidated Steel Corporation was located in the town of Orange, and among the warships that it built were the (1942), the first warship built there, the (1943), and the (1945–46), the last warship built there. During the war, the Consolidate Steel Corporation employed as many as 20,000 people at its shipyard in Orange, Texas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orange County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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