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Location in Barnstable County and the state of Massachusetts.
Orleans (pronounced / r li nz/ or-leenz) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which is co-extensive with Cape Cod.
For geographic and demographic knowledge on the census-designated place Orleans, please see the article Orleans (CDP), Massachusetts.
Orleans was titled in honor of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, in recognition of France's support for the 13 colonies amid the American Revolution, and because the town did not want an English name, as they had been captured twice by the British amid the war.
However, the town's expansion helped deplete the town of lumber, a situation that did not begin to be remedied until the barns came and brought lumber from the mainland in the mid-to-late 19th century.
On the morning of 21 July 1918 amid the last year of the First World War the German submarine U-156, Captained by Richard Feldt, surfaced three miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and began to shell the tugboat "Perth Amboy" and the four barges in her tow.
A handful of the shells fired by the U-boat's two deck guns hit Nauset Beach, giving the town of Orleans the distinct ion of being the first, and only, spot in the United States to receive fire from the enemy amid the First World War.
The town's tourism trade was helped in 1961 with the creation of the Cape Cod National Seashore by President John F.
The Orleans Inn, between Town Cove and Route 28 According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 22.7 square miles (58.7 km2), of which 14.1 square miles (36.6 km2) is territory and 8.5 square miles (22.0 km2), or 37.59%, is water. Orleans is bordered by Eastham to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Pleasant Bay and the town of Chatham to the south, Harwich to the southwest, Brewster to the west, and Cape Cod Bay to the northwest.
Orleans is 27 miles (43 km) south of Provincetown, 22 miles (35 km) east of Barnstable, 36 miles (58 km) east of the Sagamore Bridge, and 90 miles (140 km) southeast of Boston.
Orleans is positioned on the inner "elbow" section of Cape Cod.
The town is dotted with bogs and ponds in the part of town, with many inlets, islands and harbors along the easterly coast of the town, including Town Cove, Nauset Harbor, Pleasant Bay, and Little Pleasant Bay.
Rock Harbor, bounded by and shared with the town of Eastham, is positioned in the "crease" of the inner elbow and provides boating access to Cape Cod Bay.
The town line between Eastham and Orleans is the site of the termini of Massachusetts Routes 6 - A and 28.
The two routes join in the Orleans town center and end at a rotary with Route 6 at the Eastham town line.
Massachusetts Route 39, which traces a portion of the Brewster town line, ends in the southern part of Orleans at Route 28.
Orleans has no rail or air service in town.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. In the town, the populace was spread out with 13.8% under the age of 18, 3.5% from 18 to 24, 17.3% from 25 to 44, 29.4% from 45 to 64, and 36.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Orleans is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes (with the exception of Brewster) all the suburbs east and north of Harwich on the Cape.
The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Cape and Islands District, which includes all of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket except the suburbs of Bourne, Falmouth, Sandwich and a portion of Barnstable. The town is patrolled by the Second (Yarmouth) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police. On the nationwide level, Orleans is a part of Massachusetts's 10th congressional district, and is presently represented by William R.
Orleans is governed by the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a town secretary and a board of selectmen.
There are three postal services, in East Orleans, Orleans Center and South Orleans.
The town also operates a several beaches, boat landings, and small parks, and has a historical commission which meets in the town's initial meeting home (across the street from the current Town Hall).
Orleans is the site of a county courthouse, which serves much of the lower Cape.
Orleans, along with Brewster, Eastham and Wellfleet, belongs to the Nauset Regional School District.
Each town provides schooling for their own elementary students, and collectively send their middle and high school students to county-wide schools.
Orleans operates the Orleans Elementary School for students from kindergarten through fifth grade.
The town is home to Nauset Regional Middle School, which serves students from sixth through eighth undertaking for the district.
High school students attend Nauset Regional High School in North Eastham, but also have the option of attending Cape Cod Regional Technical School in Harwich no-charge of charge.
Orleans is home to the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School, which serves grades six through eight. Orleans, being on Cape Cod, and thus an exposed portion of the coast, has been a target in wartime.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Orleans town, Barnstable County, Massachusetts".
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
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