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Orondo, Washington

Field	Value
name	Orondo
official_name	Orondo, Washington
settlement_type	Unincorporated Community
image_skyline	Orondoappleorchard.jpg
image_caption	An apple orchard in the Orondo area.
motto	The Town Which Held The Key
map_caption	Location of Orondo, Washington
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name1	Washington
subdivision_name2	Douglas
population_as_of	2010
population_est	1995
pop_est_as_of	2017
<!-- Government -->	elevation_m	231
elevation_ft	758
postal_code_type	ZIP code
postal_code	98843
area_code	509
area_code_type	Area code

Orondo is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Washington, United States, located alongside the eastern part of the Columbia River. It is part of the Wenatchee–East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The area is well known for its robust agriculture industry, and produce fruits such as apples, cherries and pears. The name was derived from a mythical Great Lake Indian and was first settled in the late 19th century by late Washington politician, John B. Smith.

The Auvil Fruit Company is located in Orondo. With the help of founder Grady Auvil, the company introduced the apple cultivar Granny Smith, thus establishing the M26 root stock and fostering quality production of Fuji Apples in Washington State.

The town supports a U.S. Post Office, an elementary school, and a multitude of fruit stands along U.S. Highway 97.

According to United States Census, the population is estimated to be 1995 with a marginal error of 338 as of 2017.

Parks

Daroga State Park: A 127-acre camping park with 1.5 miles of Columbia River shoreline on the elevated edge of the desert scab-lands. First established as an orchard/ranch site in 1928, the name derived as the first letters of Auvil brother: Dave, Robert, and Grandy. A new peach was developed cataloged as the Daroga Peach. In 1981, Grady Auvil sold the property to the state of Washington and is now currently owned by the Chelan County PUD but operated by Washington State Parks.

Orondo River Park: established in 1972, the park has been a recreational site since 1976. The port of Douglas and Chelan County PUD own property within the park boundaries.

In October 2017, the port of Douglas has asked the Chelan PUD take over operation and ownership of the facility due to the park losing money for years.

Education

The town has one school district that operates the preschool, elementary and middle school.

The district is a "non-high" school district and has no high school opportunity in the town. As a result, the neighboring schools provide high school education for Freshman through Senior students.

History

1887, the townsite of Orondo was established by J.B Smith.

1888, Smith donated a plot of land to attract more settlers to Orondo

Climate

Literature

In East of the Mountains (1999), Orondo is mentioned when one of two Spanish speaking brothers on a bus asked Catherine Donnelly, where they are and wondering how long till they arrive at Orondo. The brothers then mentioned that they work at Orondo picking apples.

Orondo is mentioned by a band of outlaws in the second novel by author D.F Bissonnette "The Smoke Road" (2017), while they flee from the US Cavalry after a spate of crimes along the Columbia River during the Yakima Wars.

References

(1904). "An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country: Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties, State of Washington".
(1979). "Nicknames and Sobriquets of U.S. Cities, States, and Counties". Scarecrow Press.
"Explore Census Data".
Majors, Harry M.. (1975). "Exploring Washington". Van Winkle Publishing Co.
Meany, Edmond S.. (1923). "Origin of Washington geographic names". University of Washington Press.
"Auvil Fruit Company {{!}} Premium Fruit Grower".
"Explore Census Data".
"Daroga State Park {{!}} Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission".
"Orondo River Park".
"Chelan County PUD is building 2018 budget with no electric rate increase".
Hair, Steve. (2018-06-05). "DOUGLAS PORT APPEALS TO PUD TO TAKE OVER ORONDO PARK".
"Orondo School District / Homepage".
"High School Services / Program".
"weather.com".
Guterson, David.. (2000). "East of the mountains.". Bloomsbury.
Bissonnette, D.F.. (2017). "The Smoke Road.". Independent.

Wikipedia Source

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