Orangefield, Texas

Orangefield is an unincorporated community located in the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area, approximately twelve miles east of Beaumont in Orange County, Texas, United States.

After a major producing well was discovered in August 1913, a post office was established for Orangefield in 1922.

A few rice farms and marshes comprised the population in the area between Orange, Bridge City, and Vidor.

[3] Many farmers allowed oil wells to be dug on their properties, especially since they still owned the mineral rights.

Reportedly, a steam press for clothes caught fire and "an employee picked up a bucket of gasoline, believing it to be water" and threw it on the blaze.

A. H. Montagne and Paul Cormier brought in the new boom when they hit a major oil pocket.