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Vida is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.It is located on Oregon Route 126 and the McKenzie River. [2]Vida was originally named "Gate Creek", but this caused confusion with a community of "Gates Creek" in Washington County, so the name of the postmaster's daughter was selected instead. [2]
County FIPS code [3] County seat [4] Est. [4] Origin [5] Etymology [5] Population [6] Area [4] Map Baker County: 001: Baker City: 1862: Eastern portion of Wasco County: Named in honor of Edward Dickinson Baker, who died in combat while serving as Oregon senator. 16,912: 3,068 sq mi (7,946 km 2) Benton County: 003: Corvallis: 1847: Polk County
More than 100 pages use this file. The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only. A full list is available.. Ada, Oregon; Alma, Oregon; Alpha, Oregon
The Goodpasture Bridge was designed by the Oregon State Highway Department (now the Oregon Department of Transportation) and was built by Lane County. A.C. Striker was the county bridge superintendent at the time of its construction. It was built to allow local families and commercial logging trucks to cross the McKenzie River. [7] [11]
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503: The northwestern corner of Oregon, including Portland and its metropolitan area, Salem and other cities 541: All of Oregon outside the northwestern corner, including Eugene. 971: An overlay of area code 503. Until 2008, 971 was a concentrated overlay, meaning it was only present in some parts of the 503 area.
The community is not only one of Oregon's rare place names attributed to a first name, but is also an even rarer Oregon palindromic place name. Also noteworthy is the fact that when founded in 1892, Ada was located in Douglas County and later entered Lane County only after a 1903 boundary change. [ 2 ]
An author for the Lane County Historian wrote that Goshen was named by John Jacob Hampton, [7] although Oregon: End of the Trail says that it was named by Elijah Bristow. Bristow saw the area as a "land of promise." [8] The post office was discontinued in 1957, when it became an Independent Rural Station of Eugene. [9] [10]