Orestes, IN

Orestes is a town in Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 329 residents. Orestes is part of the Indianapolis–Carmel–Anderson metropolitan statistical area. Orestes is home to an oak tree that is estimated to be at least 350 years old. Orestes is in the Alexandria Community School Corporation. The short version is that Orestes carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Orestes: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Orestes is located in northern Madison County. Indiana State Road 28 runs along the northern border of the town, leading east 3 miles to Alexandria and west 6 miles to Elwood. Orestes is home to a Red Gold Tomatoes canning plant.