Orange County Council Districts

What is a District?

All Scout Units (Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops, Venturing Crews, and Varsity Teams) are a part of a District.  Districts are a part of a Council.  A District is a geographical sub-unit of a Council.  A District serves the Units within the District, and does other things.

 What does a District do?

The District is a conduit for the delivery of the Council’s Scouting program to Units and their youth.  The District provides training, Unit support, membership services, advancement opportunities, information, and programming to the Units in its geographical area.  At a District Level, opportunities for Units include Roundtables, Camporees, Cuborees, Merit Badge Days, Cub Scout summer day camp, and other opportunities in which Units participate, share fellowship and experiences, and help each other.  The District is also the conduit for support, financial and otherwise, to the Council.  The District helps the Council with its Friends of Scouting Campaign yearly to gather the funds necessary to operate Council service centers,  employ professionals who help oversee the program, and support and pay for physical assets, including camps, and other things.

 Why is the District important to each person, Scout, Leader, and Family Member?

Among other things the District provides community, common purpose, and support for Units.  Units (Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops, Venturing Crews, Sea Scout Ships) cannot act in isolation.  A Scout cannot get the best that the Scouting program can offer without the aid, assistance, support, fellowship, training, activities and other benefits of the District.  As a physician cannot focus on one part of the body without taking into account all of the other parts, so should parents and leaders not focus exclusively on their Pack or Troop without taking into account: the resources of the District, the District’s own needs in providing those resources, and the parents’ and leaders’ involvement in supporting the District to provide those resources.

 What is OUR District?

Your District will is determined by the City your unit is registered in. Take a look the the Council District map here to see you districts boundaries.

Orange County Council District Map

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