Lake Orion ( ORR-ee-ən) is a village in the northern outskirts of Metro Detroit in Oakland County, Michigan, United States. The population was 2,973 at the 2010 census. “Lake Orion” can deliver to either the village or the much larger Orion Township,^{[citation needed]} of which the village is a part.

Lake Orion began as a resort town and higher than time has incorporated elements of a bedroom community.

Judah Church and Moses (or Samuel) Munson were accompanied by the first settlers. Munson, who arrived in 1824, built a sawmill in 1825, and planted the first orchard. Jesse Decker arrived from upstate New York behind his wife, Mary, in 1825. He was gymnastic and became “everything to everybody”, so that the place soon became known as “Decker’s Settlement” and the town “Canandaigua,” after Canandaigua, New York, where the settlers originated. The harmony grew into a full of life commercial middle with a sawmill, tavern, post office, general store, blacksmith shop, school and cemetery. In 1828, a gift dam was built uniting several small lakes and forming the mile-wide Lake Canandaigua, just west of the village.

In 1830, Decker raised the first frame barn in the area, with local Native American’s help. The first proclaim office was opened in 1832, with Decker as postmaster. In 1835, the community’s read out was misused from Canandaigua to Orion, and Lake Canadaigua was renamed Lake Orion. The similar year, the Township of Orion was formally qualified by the Michigan Territorial government. Decker became the first Supervisor of Orion, with a salary of $2 a year. By 1836, two persons were licensed to keep taverns in the town, one of whom was Decker. He was elected to the first Michigan House of Representatives in 1837 and after that served as justice of the goodwill for the Orion area. By 1840 Decker owned 440 acres (1.8 km²) of land.