Orange Park was laid out in 1877 by the Florida Winter Home and Improvement Company, which planted many of its lots with orange trees, and the Legislature incorporated it as a town in 1879. It still governs itself. Inside town limits, the Town’s Building Division at 2042 Park Avenue enforces the Florida Building Code and town ordinances, and inspections are requested through the Town’s online permit portal.
Code compliance in the Town is a division of the Orange Park Police Department. It enforces the town code on building, housing, nuisances, signs and zoning, and a violation that isn’t corrected in the time allowed can go before the Town’s Special Magistrate. For an address outside the town, the Town sends residents to Clay County’s Code Enforcement Office instead, at 904-284-6310.