Orleans County is a county in New York, United States, on the south shore of Lake Ontario between Buffalo and Rochester. It had a population of 40,343 at the 2020 census and covers 817 square miles (2,120 km2) — 391 square miles of land and 426 square miles of water, since the county line runs well out into the lake — centred near 43\u00b022\u2032N 78\u00b014\u2032W.<\/p>\n
Albion is the county seat, and its postal code is 14411. The county has 4 incorporated villages, 10 towns, and dozens of smaller hamlets, no separately incorporated cities. It sits in the Eastern time zone and is part of the Rochester, NY metropolitan statistical area.<\/p>\n
Orleans County is organized into 10 towns — Albion, Barre, Carlton, Clarendon, Gaines, Kendall, Murray, Ridgeway, Shelby, and Yates — each of which contains one or more villages and unincorporated hamlets. The table below lists the county’s 4 villages plus its best-known hamlets grouped by township; “Unincorp.” marks a hamlet with no separate municipal government.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Township<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albion<\/td>\n | Village · seat<\/td>\n | Albion<\/td>\n | 6,056<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Medina<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | Ridgeway<\/td>\n | 6,065<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Holley<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | Murray<\/td>\n | 1,811<\/td>\n | 14470<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lyndonville<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | Yates<\/td>\n | 838<\/td>\n | 14098<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Barre Center<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Barre<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| East Barre<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Barre<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| South Barre<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Barre<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| West Barre<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Barre<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Carlton<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14571<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Point Breeze<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Waterport<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14571<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Oak Orchard<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Jones Beach<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lakeside<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Shadigee<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sunset Beach<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Toms Landing<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Carlton<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Clarendon<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Clarendon<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14429<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bennetts Corners<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Clarendon<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14429<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Gaines<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Gaines<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| East Gaines<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Gaines<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| West Gaines<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Gaines<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Childs<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Gaines<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Eagle Harbor<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Gaines<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Gaines Basin<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Gaines<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kendall<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Kendall<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14476<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| West Kendall<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Kendall<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14476<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kent<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Kendall<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14477<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hulberton<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Murray<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14470<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Murray<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Murray<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14470<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ridgeway<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Ridgeway<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| North Ridgeway<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Ridgeway<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| West Ridgeway<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Ridgeway<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fancher<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Ridgeway<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Knowlesville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Shelby<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14479<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kenyonville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Yates<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14098<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Jeddo<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Shelby<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Millville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Shelby<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Shelby Center<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Shelby<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Shelby Basin<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Shelby<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| East Shelby<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Shelby<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| West Shelby<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Shelby<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ashwood<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Yates<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14098<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Yates Center<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | Yates<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14098<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Medina straddles the towns of Ridgeway and Shelby, and Holley straddles Murray and Clarendon; both are listed here under the town containing their historic village center. A handful of names once attached to this list — trailer-park subdivisions and duplicate “Station” sidings such as Eagle Harbor Station and Waterport Station — are place-name artifacts rather than distinct communities and are omitted here.<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nMost unincorporated hamlets share the ZIP code of their nearest post office town rather than carrying one of their own.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nOrleans County lies on the Ontario Lowland, a flat-to-gently-rolling plain of glacial till and lake sediment that slopes north to a low bluff shoreline on Lake Ontario. The Erie Canal crosses the county west to east through Albion and Medina, and Oak Orchard Creek runs north through Carlton to its Lake Ontario mouth near Point Breeze. The county’s water area, nearly as large as its land area, comes from the stretch of Lake Ontario within the county line.<\/p>\n Orleans County borders Niagara County to the west, Genesee County to the south, and Monroe County to the east, with Lake Ontario forming its entire northern boundary. See Niagara County<\/a> and Genesee County<\/a>.<\/p>\n Orleans County had 40,343 residents at the 2020 census, a density of roughly 103 people per square mile of land. Medina (6,065) and Albion (6,056) are its two largest communities, followed by Holley (1,811) and Lyndonville (838). The county’s median household income runs below the New York median of $82,095, typical of the state’s rural western counties.<\/p>\n Agriculture anchors the local economy — Orleans County is one of New York’s leading apple and cabbage producers, and its lakeshore and canal-side farmland also grows sweet corn, cherries, and other fruit sold at roadside stands each summer. Corrections and manufacturing are major employers: two state correctional facilities operate in Albion, and Medina is home to light manufacturing along the Erie Canal corridor. The Medina Sandstone quarried locally built landmark buildings across the eastern United States in the 19th century.<\/p>\n Orleans County was formed in 1824 from parts of Genesee County. Historians disagree on the source of its name: one account credits the French royal House of Orleans, another ties it to Andrew Jackson’s 1815 victory at the Battle of New Orleans, and a local tradition holds that early landowner Nehemiah Ingersoll lobbied to have the county named for himself and lost. The Erie Canal, completed through the county in the 1820s, drove its first wave of settlement and commerce; Medina’s canal-cut sandstone quarries later shipped stone nationwide.<\/p>\n The county is served by NY Route 31, which parallels the Erie Canal through Albion and Medina, and by the Lake Ontario State Parkway along the shore. Approximate distances:<\/p>\n The nearest commercial airport is Greater Rochester International Airport, about 35 miles east of Albion.<\/p>\n Where is Orleans County, New York?<\/strong> What is the population of Orleans County?<\/strong> How big is Orleans County?<\/strong> What is the county seat of Orleans County?<\/strong> How many towns and villages are in Orleans County?<\/strong> What ZIP codes are in Orleans County?<\/strong> |