Orange Park is a town in Clay County, Florida, United States.

while the Town of Orange Park is only 5.32 sq mi large, Orange Park is the designated city on all addresses for all homes and businesses within the 32073 ZIP code, which includes Lakeside, Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace and Oakleaf Plantation.

The town's name reflects the hope of its founders for a fruit-growing industry, but their crops were destroyed in the Great Freeze of 1894–1895.

The name Laurel Grove comes from Sarah and William Pengree, who received a land grant from the Spanish governor.

After Mathews left East Florida, Zephaniah's wife, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, burned down Laurel Grove to keep it out of Patriots' hands.

[4] The Town of Orange Park was founded, in 1877, by the Florida Winter Home and Improvement Company.

After the Civil War, the company bought several thousand acres of the McIntosh plantation at Laurel Grove, for the purpose of creating a southern retreat and small farming community.

[7] In 1922, the Loyal Order of Moose, a fraternal organization, bought the former Hotel Marion in downtown Orange Park and rebuilt the property into Moosehaven, a 63-acre retirement community that is exclusively for its senior members.

Orange Park Elementary School, built in 1927, continues to operate a few blocks from the river.

The laboratory became the Yerkes National Primate Research Center; it was moved to the Emory University campus in Georgia in 1965.

The Town of Orange Park is built around the intersection of 2 Major Roads: US 17 and Florida SR 224.

Kingsley Avenue is the other main street and connects Orange Park to the neighboring Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace.

Doctor's Lake Road also directly connects Kingsley Ave. in Orange Park to Lakeside to the southwest.

The Town of Orange Park has a virtual 100% electrification rate and the sole electrical provider within the city limits is JEA, located in neighboring Jacksonville in Duval County.