Tangerine is a census-designated place (CDP) in Orange County, Florida, United States.

Dudley W. Adams arrives at what is known as the "Olaville" settlement in Northwest Orange County, Florida.

During a neighborhood meeting at the home of Miss Bessie Heustis, sister-in-law of Mr. Adams, the name of Olaville is changed to Tangerine, the group being inspired by the fruit of the tree that grew by her doorstep.

The nearby Zellwood, Florida fire department responds within seven minutes, but the building is destroyed.

[9] Tangerine was the adopted home of novelist, journalist and government consultant Harry Hart Frank (born Chicago, Illinois, 1908; died Jacksonville, Florida, 1964).

Under the pen name Pat Frank, his classic 1959 post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon is set in the fictional Central Florida small town (stated pop.

Fort Repose, although fictional, is a clearly drawn composite, representative of many small isolated native-settler Florida communities of the period.

The actual town of Mount Dora, 4 miles (6 km) north of Tangerine, has been stated as a specific inspiration for Fort Repose, with Frank's fictional shantytown "Pistolville" said to have been named for Mt.