Orviston is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Curtin Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 95. It is located in far northern Centre County, near the Clinton County border. Beech Creek runs through the center of the town, flowing southeast towards Bald Eagle Creek in the West Branch Susquehanna River watershed.

Orviston is known as the last town accessible by the Monument/Orviston road – a 10.8-mile paved county road stemming from Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, and ending at the entry to Orviston. Traffic can flow through Orviston, however, West upon the Orviston-Kato road, South on the Orviston Mountain road to Romola and Marsh Creek, and North on the Dehass road to PA 144 N and E of Clarence. All are unpaved mountain roads. Formed prior to the mining boom, Orviston was as a result named in 1904 as replacement for its original name, Hayes Run, Pennsylvania, in great compliment of Judge Ellis Orvis, owner of the Orviston Fire Brick Company and President Judge of the 49th Judicial District of Pennsylvania. Judge Orvis owned a number of brick plants including the Centre Brick and Clay Company at the Western end of Orviston as capably as the Snow Shoe Fire Brick Company in Snow Shoe in the middle of others. The now defunct Beech Creek Railroad – charted August 12, 1882 under the publish Susquehanna and Southwestern Railroad which was absorbed by the New York Central Railroad which forward-looking became the Penn Central – ran through Orviston and its sister town, Monument, Pennsylvania, until the early 1960s.

Orviston experienced broken to homes and properties during March 1936 ice flood so of two close storms hitting the northern United States. Excessive rainfall, coupled considering melting snow, raised water levels in the Beech Creek stream by not quite 4 feet – a compilation breaking thing at that time. There were no reported casualties in Orviston. In June 1972 the Beech Creek stream flooded again hence of Hurricane Agnes dropping going on to 30 inches of rainfall on Orviston and surrounding towns at a rate of 7 inches per hour during its peak. No casualties occurred during the Agnes flood and property broken was not significant or long lasting.