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Orange Beach, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Baldwin. Associated ZIP codes: 36561.
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Orange Beach is in Baldwin County, Alabama.
Region: South Alabama
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Orange Beach takes its name from the citrus groves that once grew here. Bear Point, at the eastern end of today's city, was a Creek settlement until the early 1800s. American settlers arrived in the mid-1860s, and the area divided into three communities: Orange Beach on the west, Caswell in the middle and Bear Point on the east. After the area's forests were cut over in the late 1800s, orange groves took their place, and Lemuel Walker Sr. planted the first of them. The town's first post office opened in Walker's home in 1901.
Fishing shaped the next chapter. In the early 1920s, around the time one of the first tourist hotels was built, local residents began renting out their boats for one-day fishing trips, the start of a charter fishing industry that remains central to the town's identity. Orange Beach stayed a small community until the late 20th century. Development picked up after Hurricane Frederic struck the coast in 1979, and Orange Beach was incorporated as a city on August 1, 1984. The city opened its own middle and high school in 2020 and formed its own school system in 2022. Sources Encyclopedia of Alabama: Orange Beach Wikipedia: Orange Beach, Alabama (citing AL.com)
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