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Orono (/ ˈ ɒr ə n oʊ / ORR-ə-noh) is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Located on the Penobscot and Stillwater rivers, it was first settled by American colonists in 1774. They named it in honor of Chief Joseph Orono , a sachem of the indigenous Penobscot nation who long occupied this territory.
Orono (/ ˈ ɒr ə ˌ n oʊ / ORR-ə-noh, / ˈ ɒr n oʊ / ORR-noh) is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is situated west of Minneapolis on the north shore of Lake Minnetonka. Orono is an affluent municipality that ranks as one of the wealthiest cities in the state. [6] The population was 7,437 at the 2010 census. [7]
Orono, Maine, a town in Penobscot County, home to the University of Maine Orono (CDP), Maine, the main settled area of the town; Orono, Minnesota, a city in Hennepin County; Orono Township, Muscatine County, Iowa
Dec. 6—As Orono moves ahead with plans to erect new welcome signs that feature the Penobscot Nation chief for whom the town was named, there's no definitive history detailing Joseph Orono's ...
Orono Town Hall, erected in 1898 to serve as Town Hall for Clarke Township. The Municipality of Clarington, in which Orono is located, was formed through the union of the Townships of Clarke and Darlington. Historically, Orono was the seat of government for Clarke Township.
Orono is located at (44.888769, −68.671153 The Orono CDP consists of all of the town east of Interstate 95, including the primary settled area in the town.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.7 square miles (20.0 km 2), of which 7.1 square miles (18.3 km 2) is land and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km 2), or 8.55%, is water.
Orono: Town Penobscot 11,183 18.2 47 1806 Standish: Town Cumberland 10,244 59.0 153 1785 Kittery: Town York 10,070 17.8 46 1647 Lisbon: Town Androscoggin 9,711 22.8 59
The town of Orono was settled in the 1770s, and was incorporated in 1806, named for Joseph Orono, a local Penobscot chief who had recently died. Its population was relatively small until a lumber boom began in the 1820s. This boom continued into the 1840s, and resulted in Orono's most significant period of population growth.