Deadwood, Oregon

Deadwood, Oregon
Unincorporated community
Store and gas station in Deadwood
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Coordinates: 44°05′44″N123°45′48″W / 44.09556°N 123.76333°W / 44.09556; -123.76333
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Lane
Elevation [1]	259 ft (79 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	97430 [2]
Area codes	458 and 541
GNIS feature ID	1140749 [1]

Deadwood is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located on Oregon Route 36, in the Oregon Coast Range.

Deadwood was named after Deadwood Creek, a tributary of Lake Creek in the Siuslaw River basin. Deadwood Creek was so-named because of the dead timber snags next to its banks, which had resulted from a series of wildfires in the area. ^[3] Deadwood post office was established in 1884. ^[3] The post office was discontinued to the community of Greenleaf in 1914, but was reestablished in 1950. ^[3]

Deadwood is the home of Alpha Farm  [ d ], an intentional community established in 1972. ^{[4] [5]} The farm owned the Alpha Bit, a café and book/gift store in Mapleton but was sold in 2018.^{[ citation needed ]} Other residents include the artists Ernie and Mary Lou Goertzen who lived in the old Deadwood schoolhouse from 1975. ^[6]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Deadwood, Oregon
2. "Deadwood ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
3. McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN   978-0875952772.
4. "Alpha Farm". Archived from the original on June 13, 2010.
5. Gatton, Dee Dee (May 1, 2014). "Alpha Farm: 'There are only two rules: no guns, no hard drugs'". KVAL-TV . Archived from the original on October 29, 2015.
6. "Ernest "Ernie" Goertzen". Mennonite Weekly Review. September 2004. Retrieved May 2, 2014.