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Grants Pass is a city in and the county seat of Josephine County, Oregon, United States. [7] The city is located on Interstate 5 , northwest of Medford , along the Rogue River . The population is 39,194 according to the 2020 census , making it the 15th most populous city in Oregon .
Area code 503 was used for the entire state of Oregon until November 5, 1995, when the numbering plan area was reduced to just the populous northwestern corner of the state, including Portland and Salem, and area code 541 began service for the rest of the state. [1]
The county seat is Bend. [2] The county was created in 1916 out of part of Crook County and was named for the Deschutes River, which itself was named by French-Canadian trappers of the early 19th century. It is the political and economic hub of Central Oregon. Deschutes comprises the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area [3] and media ...
500 Southwest Ramsey Avenue, Grants Pass, Oregon, United States Coordinates 42°25′17″N 123°20′35″W / 42.4215°N 123.343°W / 42.4215; -123
Grants Pass, Oregon, designates camping areas to manage homelessness weeks after Supreme Court ruling. August 8, 2024 at 10:27 PM. Jenny Kane/AP.
The Rogue Valley is a valley region in southwestern Oregon in the United States. Located along the middle Rogue River and its tributaries in Josephine and Jackson counties, the valley forms the cultural and economic heart of Southern Oregon near the California border. The largest communities in the Rogue Valley are Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass.
Josephine County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.As of the 2020 census, the population was 88,090. [1] The county seat is Grants Pass. [2] The county is named after Virginia Josephine Rollins (1834–1912), a settler who was the first white woman to live in the county's boundaries.
In 2019, the Source Weekly partnered with local crowd funding service What If We Could, to create the Central Oregon Gives Campaign, [6] a fundraising campaign for nonprofits. In September 2020, The Straits Times reported that the Source Weekly was participating in World News Day, a day highlighting the work of professional news outlets.