diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/CMakeLists.txt
index eb7194cd421..0883717aa54 100644
--- a/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,3 +23,11 @@
 install(FILES
         adapter.h
         DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}/arrow/adapters/orc")
+
+# pkg-config support
+configure_file(arrow-orc.pc.in
+  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/arrow-orc.pc"
+  @ONLY)
+install(
+  FILES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/arrow-orc.pc"
+  DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/pkgconfig/")
diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/arrow-orc.pc.in b/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/arrow-orc.pc.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eec59ccc52e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/arrow-orc.pc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+libdir=@CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR@
+includedir=@CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_INCLUDEDIR@
+
+Name: Apache Arrow ORC
+Description: ORC modules for Apache Arrow
+Version: @ARROW_VERSION@
+Requires: arrow