Editing Orange County, Texas (section)

==History==
Orange County was formed in 1852 from portions of Jefferson County.<ref>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hco03 Handbook of Texas Online - ORANGE COUNTY]</ref> It was named after the [[Orange (fruit)|orange fruit]], the common [[citrus fruit]] grown by the early settlers of this county near the mouth of the [[Sabine River (Texas-Louisiana)|Sabine River]].<ref>[http://www.co.orange.tx.us/OCHistory.htm History of Orange, TX] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118215611/http://www.co.orange.tx.us/OCHistory.htm |date=January 18, 2008 }}</ref>
Due to periodic spells of quite cold winter weather ([[frost]]s) in Orange County, it is no longer the home of [[orange tree]]s and [[citrus]] [[orchard]]s. The production of those fruits in Texas long ago was moved a long way southwest into the [[Rio Grande Valley (Texas)|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, Florida|Citrus County]] or [[Orange County, Florida|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, [[Consolidated Steel Corporation]], was located in the town of Orange, and among the [[warship]]s that it built were the {{USS|Aulick|DD-569}} (1942), the first warship built there, the {{USS|Pope|DE-134}} (1943), and the {{USS|Carpenter|DD-825}} (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.