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La Fargeville is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Orleans in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 608 at the 2010 census. The hamlet is named after John Frederick La Farge, one of the early proprietors of the town. La Fargeville was once a village, but dissolved its municipal corporation in 1922.

La Fargeville is north of Watertown. The small hamlet has one school, LaFargeville Central School, which serves Pre-K through 12th grade. La Fargeville Central School is ranked the 911th largest public school, 17,312th nationally, and has a total student population of 552.

La Fargeville CDP overview:
Name:	La Fargeville CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	New York
County:	Jefferson County
Elevation:	377 ft (115 m)
Total Area:	3.37 sq mi (8.73 km²)
Land Area:	3.31 sq mi (8.58 km²)
Water Area:	0.06 sq mi (0.14 km²)
Total Population:	537
Population Density:	162.04/sq mi (62.56/km²)
ZIP code:	13656
Area code:	315
FIPS code:	3640233
GNISfeature ID:	0954846

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History

The hamlet was previously called “Log Mills” when it was first settled around 1816, due to the construction of a sawmill for logs. John Frederick La Farge, a French immigrant who had Americanized his name from Jean Frédéric de la Farge, arrived in 1826. Already wealthy from an import business he had set up in New Orleans, he began in the 1820s to buy real estate and build houses in Jefferson County, speculation that eventually led to La Fargeville being named after him. His son John La Farge became a well-known artist.

By 1850, the population was about 300.

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Geography

La Fargeville is in northern Jefferson County, in the central part of the town of Orleans. The Chaumont River, a southwest-flowing tributary of Lake Ontario, flows through the center of the community.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.7 km), of which 3.3 square miles (8.6 km) are land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km), or 1.62%, are water.

La Fargeville is at the junction of New York State Route 180 and New York State Route 411 (Plank Road). NY-180 leads north 7 miles (11 km) to Fishers Landing on the St. Lawrence River and south 14 miles (23 km) to Dexter at the mouth of the Black River into Lake Ontario. NY-411 leads east 4 miles (6 km) to Interstate 81 and 9 miles (14 km) to Theresa. County Road 181 (Plank Street) serves the hamlet from the west, leading 7 miles (11 km) to Clayton on the St. Lawrence. Watertown, the Jefferson county seat, is 17 miles (27 km) south of La Fargeville via Routes 180 and 12.