The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes an entry for the Polish village of Orzyc.
Orzyc and Surrounding Area – 1910
Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE Faculty of Informatics,
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics); digital images, Lazarus ELTE
(http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/39-53.jpg: accessed 20 December 2025)
Source: Chlebowski, Bronisław and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1886, Volume VII, Page 615.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the Słownik Geograficzny entry for Orzec. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
Orzyc also known as Orzyce, a village and manor on the Orzyc River, in Maków powiat, Smrock gmina, Szelków parish. Located 7 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from Maków. It has a gmina office, a brickyard, and 34 peasant settlements. In 1827, there were 16 houses and 117 inhabitants. The Orzyc manor, in 1871, covered 1528 mórgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 mórg = 1.388 acres]: 327 mórgs of arable land and gardens, 10 mórgs of meadows, 59 mórgs of pastures, 982 mórgs of forest, 127 mórgs of scrubland, and 22 mórgs of unproductive land; 1 brick building and 15 wooden buildings. The village of Orzyc had 34 settlements and 217 mórgs of land.
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