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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), ... This page was last edited on 8 September 2022, at 18:57 (UTC).
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Orono is located at (44.888769, −68.67115 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.
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.
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