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Ashland, Oregon
Ashland, Oregon, is a city of 21,360 in the Rogue Valley near the California line, incorporated in 1874 and known for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Astoria, Oregon
Astoria is a port city of nearly 10,000 in northwestern Oregon at the mouth of the Columbia River, the first permanent United States settlement on the Pacific coast.
Beaverton, Oregon
Beaverton, Oregon: a Washington County city of about 97,500 west of Portland, incorporated 1893, platted 1868, home of Nike world headquarters and part of the Silicon Forest.
Bend, Oregon
Bend, Oregon: city in Deschutes County at a bend in the Deschutes River, incorporated 1905, population 99,178 (2020). Railroad and lumber boom town turned outdoor-recreation and tourism hub with severe housing affordability strain.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Cannon Beach is a small resort city on the Pacific coast of Clatsop County, Oregon, 80 miles west of Portland, best known for the 235-foot Haystack Rock sea stack.
Coos Bay, Oregon
Coos Bay, Oregon (formerly Marshfield) is the largest city on the Oregon coast, population 15,985 in 2020, a timber and shipping port town on Oregon's largest bay, now pursuing a container terminal.
Corvallis, Oregon
Corvallis, Oregon: Benton County seat on the Willamette River, home of Oregon State University. Founded as Marysville by Joseph Avery (1845), briefly territorial capital in 1855, incorporated 1857; population about 60,000.
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon: Willamette Valley city incorporated 1862, population about 178,600, home of the University of Oregon (1876) and TrackTown USA; major housing growth planning underway.
Grants Pass, Oregon
Grants Pass, Oregon: county seat of Josephine County on the Rogue River, incorporated 1887, population about 39,000; named for Grant's Vicksburg victory; home of Dutch Bros and the 2024 Johnson v. Grants Pass Supreme Court ruling.
Gresham
Gresham, Oregon: fourth-largest city in the state (114,247 in 2020), in Multnomah County east of Portland. Founded 1851 by the Powell brothers, incorporated 1905, named for Postmaster General Walter Quintin Gresham; former berry-farming town turned suburb.
Hillsboro, Oregon
Hillsboro, Oregon: county seat of Washington County west of Portland, Oregon's fifth largest city (about 110,000), and the center of the Silicon Forest, anchored by Intel's largest campus and a growing data center cluster.
Klamath Falls, Oregon
Klamath Falls, known locally as Oregon's City of Sunshine, is the county seat of Klamath County in south central Oregon, a city of about 22,000 on Upper Klamath Lake.
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Lake Oswego, Oregon: suburban city eight miles southwest of Portland, founded 1850 as Oswego, Oregon's first iron town, renamed 1960; centered on privately managed Oswego Lake with contested public access.
Medford, Oregon
Medford, Oregon: county seat of Jackson County in the Rogue Valley, founded 1883 as an Oregon and California Railroad town, incorporated 1885, named by engineer David Loring after Medford, Massachusetts; 2020 population 85,824.
Nicknames of Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon's nicknames include Stumptown, Rose City, Rip City, Bridgetown, Beervana, PDX, and Portlandia, tracing the city's path from frontier logging town to brewing capital.
Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon: largest city in Oregon, seat of Multnomah County, at the Willamette-Columbia confluence. Founded 1845 by coin toss, incorporated 1851; 2025 population about 635,000; new council-mayor government since 2025.
Roseburg, Oregon
Roseburg, Oregon: county seat of Douglas County in the Umpqua Valley, founded by Aaron Rose in 1851, incorporated 1868 (or 1870 per county records), a former timber capital now centered on healthcare, wine, and I-5 trade.
Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon: state capital and second largest city, seat of Marion County in the Willamette Valley. Founded 1842 around the Oregon Institute; capital since 1851; population about 181,779 (2025).
The Dalles, Oregon
The Dalles, Oregon: county seat and largest city of Wasco County on the Columbia River at the east end of the Columbia River Gorge; population 16,010 (2020), historic Oregon Trail terminus, site of The Dalles Dam and Google's first data center.