Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Portion of Umpqua County which lay east of the Coast Range summit: Named for senator Stephen A. Douglas, a supporter of Oregon's admission to the union. 112,435: 5,037 sq mi (13,046 km 2) Gilliam County: 021: Condon: 1885: Eastern third of Wasco County: Named for Oregon pioneer Cornelius Gilliam (1798–1848). 2,026: 1,204 sq mi (3,118 km 2 ...
The University of Oregon lists historic Oregon newspapers by county, with links to various public and subscription-based databases. It has a growing collection of full-text newspaper articles published between 1860-1922 available for free here and also provides searchable indices of its own collections of the Daily Emerald , The Oregonian , and ...
This page was last edited on 6 September 2020, at 05:04 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
McMinnville is the county seat of and most populous city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States at the base of the Oregon Coast Range. The city is named after McMinnville, Tennessee . As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 34,319.
Lincoln City News Guard: Lincoln City: 1937 2024 Merged with Newport News-Times: Newport News-Times: Newport: 1882 2024 Merged with Lincoln City News Guard: Mail Tribune: Medford: April 2, 1907 January 13, 2023 McMinnville Reporter: McMinnville: 1870 [6] Metropolis Herald: Portland: circa 1855 [6] Mid-county Memo: Portland: May 1985 January ...
Oregon (/ ˈ ɒr ɪ ɡ ən,-ɡ ɒ n / ⓘ ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) [7] [8] is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho.
Cottage Grove post office was established in 1855 east of present-day Creswell. [9] It was named by its first postmaster, G. C. Pearce, whose home was in an oak grove. [9] In 1861, the office was moved to the present site of Saginaw; [9] then in the late 1860s, to the southwesternmost part of present-day Cottage Grove, on the west bank of the Coast Fork Willamette River. [9]
Benton County was created on December 23, 1847, by an act of the Provisional Government of Oregon. [3] The county was named after Democratic Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, an advocate of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the belief that the American government should control the whole of the Oregon Country.