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Post Offices
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| Agate Post Office | Named for the agates of this "Agate Desert" area by farmer and agate hunter, Jefferson S. Grigsby was the only postmaster. Agate centered at the Antelope and Modoc Road junctions, a mile S of the… |
| Applegate Post Office | The community grew on the "Old Inland Trail" in southern Oregon along the Applegate River fifteen miles SE of Grants Pass and 10 miles SW of Jacksonville. The town and river are named for pioneer… |
| Asbestos Post Office | Named for the area's deposits of asbestos bearing fibrous tremolite, this post office near Evans Creek (southern part of township 33, range 2 west) was 6 miles N of Beagle. Alice Welch, wife of… |
| Ashland Post Office | Ashland 1, 1940 Ashland 2, 1898 Ashland 3, undated map Ashland 4, undated map for Ashland Mills Post Office, township 39s, range 1e Ashland 5, 1866 The Post… |
| Barron Post Office, 1875 | The post office was named for the family which ran the stage stop and post office out of the family ranch "Mountain House" at the foot of the Siskiyou Mountains. Barron was located about… |
| Barron Post Office, 1905 | The post office was named for the family which ran the stage stop and post office out of the family ranch "Mountain House" at the foot of the Siskiyou Mountains. During Jim Cooke's postmastership… |
| Beagle Post Office | Named for William Beagle, early settler and first postmaster, the post office was located five miles NE of Sams Valley at the crossing of Antioch and Beagle Roads a few miles N of Upper Table Rock… |
| Big Butte Post Office | Big Butte 1, 1908 Big Butte 3, 1878 Big Butte 5, 1878
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| Bolt Post Office | Bolt 1, 1885 Application has Bolt's Corner crossed out and replaced by "Bolt" Bolt 2, 1885 diagram
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| Brownsboro Post Office | Brownsboro is located on Little Butte Creek seven miles NE of Eagle Point on Brownsboro Road where it joins Lake of the Woods Highway. The post office was named for Henry R. Brown on whose land… |
| Buncom Post Office | Buncom is located about 12 miles W of Ashland at the junction of Sterling Creek and the Little Applegate River. In 1853, Samuel Phillps established mining claims and farms and in 1867 the Buncom… |
| Butte Falls Post Office | Established June 28, 1906, the Butte Falls post office is still serving the busy town and rural patrons. Where did they go? Following the mail trail of the DPOs of Jackson County,… |
| Camp White | Named in honor of Major-General George A. White (adjutant general for Oregon and commander of the 41st Division who d. Nov. 23 1941), the camp was 10 miles North of Medford. It was authorized… |
| Central Point Post Office | Central Point was named by Isaac Constant, a local pioneer landowner at the crossing of the most traveled pioneer wagon roads of the Rogue River Valley. One led from Jacksonville to Sam's… |
| Climax Post Office | Climax was located on Antelope Creek around 10 miles east of Phoenix and 10 miles due south of Lake Creek. According to Bertha Charley, the last postmistress, the post office was named by John… |
| Colestin Post Office | Byron Cole was first postmaster having re-named and then moved the White Point post office to Colestin. It was located two miles NW of the White Point station on the SP railroad at the site of the… |
| Copper Post Office | The Copper, CA post office opened to especially serve the workers of the Blue Ledge Copper Mine and, in 1924, was moved 3 miles north, one mile into Oregon. The new post office was in the cabin of… |
| Creede Post Office | |
| Dardanelles Post Office | |
| Derby Post Office | Named for W. H. Derby, early settler and first of five postmasters, the community of Derby was located NE of Eagle Point, 9 miles W of Butte Falls Highway. The locale had great views of Mt. Pitt,… |
| Deskins Post Office | |
| Deter Post Office | Named for local cattle rancher David M. Deter, this post office was a flag station two miles south of the summit tunnel in the Siskiyous on the SP rail line at "old Gravel Pit Spur" one… |
| Draper Post Office | The post office was named for miner Silas Draper, the first postmaster. Located south of the Rogue River on the upper reaches of Foots Creek about seven miles SW of Gold Hill, Draper is on a side… |
| Dudley Post Office | The Dudley post office was in the Spencer cabin home in section 10 township 34S, range 2E. Located about 6 miles N of Butte Falls in the mountains, the office served the homesteaders there and was… |
| Eagle Point Post Office | A village since 1853, Eagle Point was named by early settlers for the nearby rocky cliff nesting place of eagles. Just off the Rogue on Little Butte Creek and what became the Brownsboro Highway,… |
| Etna Post Office | |
| Flounce Rock Post Office | |
| Foots Creek Post Office | |
| Gold Hill Post Office | Gold Hill was named for a hill on the Rogue's south bank where gold was discovered. The town was at the rocky narrows of the Rogue, near the site of old toll bridges and across the river from… |
| Gold River Post Office | |
| Grants Pass Post Office | Originally in honor of U.S. Grant's victory at Vicksburg, the name Grants Pass was given to the mountain pass N of the present city. Next Grants Pass was applied to a nearby stage stop, later… |
| Herling Post Office | |
| Hunts Post Office | |
| Jacksonville Post Office | The oldest continuing operating post office in Jackson County. The gold rush and farmers and merchants who followed the miners caused the development of many other communities and several post… |
| Lake Creek Post Office | Lake Creek was named for Lake Creek whose south and north forks flow into Little Butte Creek. It is on the present Lake of the Woods Highway 9 miles SE of Eagle Point. Joseph T. Dilk was the first… |
| Leeds Post Office | Leeds was located across the river from Laurelhurst on the SW side of the Upper Rogue River at a crossing about ten miles NE of Trail. The Leeds post office was named by the Eagle Point postmaster… |
| Lemont Post Office | |
| Lilyglen Post Office | The post office was at the Charles and William Lindsay Ranch on old Dead Indian [Memorial] Road 20 miles northeast of Ashland in the eastern part of township 38 south, Range 3 east. The post… |
| Medford Post Office | |
| Persist Post Office | |
| Phoenix Post Office | |
| Pinehurst Post Office | Located on the Greensprings Highway (Route 66) 20 miles east of Ashland, the Pinehurst post office got its name from the surrounding sugar pine woods. The post office had been moved a mile from… |
| Pioneer Post Office | Pioneer Post Office was located in the SE corner of Jackson County about 4 miles NW of Parker Mt. near where South Parker Road now runs into State Highway 66 in the vicinity of Pinehurst. The… |
| Prospect Post Office | The post office in Prospect is still serving tourists, its community and surrounding rural areas. Where did they go? Following the mail trail of the DPOs of Jackson County, Oregon (SHS 979… |
| Provolt Post Office | Located on the south side of the Applegate River about eight miles SE of Murphy, the post office was named for the pioneer father-in-law of Mary E. Provolt, the first postmistress. The post office… |
| Pursel Post Office | |
| Rock Point Post Office | Rock Point post office began at the first postmaster John B. White's store on the north side of the Rogue two miles W of Gold Hill. Known to early settlers as Point of Rocks |
| Rogue River Post Office | |
| Ruch Post Office | Seven miles southwest of Jacksonville on the Jacksonville/Crescent City Route, the post office blacksmith Casper M. Ruch ran from his store began with daily service by stage. Postmistress… |
| Sams Valley Post Office | The store/post office was on the Old Sams Valley Road 6 miles NE of Gold Hill. The Sams Valley area lies between the Rogue River on the east and south, Table Rock on the west and mountains on the… |
| Shady Cove Post Office | Shady Cove was the last post office to be established in the region. The community grew as a fishing/tourist stop on the way to Crater Lake. The post office is north of the bridge on the Crater… |
| Shake Post Office | |
| Siskiyou Post Office | The long lived little post office of Siskiyou was ten miles south of Ashland near the Siskiyou Pass by the SP railway station at the NE end of Siskiyou Tunnel. Alice Ager was the first postmaster… |
| Smiths Post Office | |
| Soda Springs Post Office | Although several places in Jackson County were known for soda springs, the only post office of that name was on Emigrant Creek about 11 miles southeast of Ashland (in the extreme northern part of… |
| Spikenard Post Office | This post office was located on a bend of the East Fork of Evans Creek, Township 34S, Range 2W, one mile south of Thomas Mill and about three miles equidistant between Asbestos to the north and… |
| Steamboat Post Office | The area called Steamboat is in the extreme southwest corner of Jackson County, about 6 miles up Steamboad/Carberry Creek from Applegate River. Gold miners began working the creek in 1860 but the… |
| Steinman Post Office | |
| Sterlingville Post Office | |
| Swastika Post Office | |
| Table Rock Post Office | |
| Talent Post Office | |
| Thomas Mill Post Office | |
| Tolo Post Office | Entrepeneurs moved the Tolo post office away from Willow Springs 3 miles N to the Rogue and SP tracks near the site of old Fort Lane (1853-1871). Although Tolo was revitalized as construction city… |
| Trail Post Office | Named for an Indian path between the Rogue and Umqua Valleys, Trail is on the Rogue at the mouth of Trail Creek, 3 miles N of Shady Cove. The village crossroads post office still serves a large… |
| Tulelake Post Office | |
| Ulvstad Post Office | |
| Union Creek Post Office | The post office was in a store on the upper reaches of the Rogue River near the mouth of Union Creek on the road to Crater Lake ten miles from the west entrance of the National Park and about… |
| Uniontown Post Office | |
| Watkins Post Office | The post office began in the Watkins' farm wood shed in the Upper Applegate Valley near the mouth of Squaw Creek, about fifteen miles S of Applegate between Wright and Copper. Mark Watkins… |
| Wellen Post Office | This post office was four miles east of present White City, near the junction of Antelope Creek and Yankee Creek Roads midway between the Lake Creek and Agate post offices. The site was named by… |
| Wertz Post Office | |
| White Point Post Office | Named for an outcrop of white granite highly visible from the Cottonwood Creek Valley, White Point was close to the California border on the old stage road (now Colestin Road) from Ashland over… |
| Williams Creek Post Office | |
| Willow Springs Post Office | The community began in 1851 on Willow Creek at junction of Lane Creek on Old Stage Rd. When the post office was moved 3 miles N to the RR with name changed to Tolo, the Willow Springs'… |
| Wimer Post Office | Named for William Wimer, editor of the Grants Pass newspaper who helped the locals get approval for this post office on Evans Creek, the Wimer post office was twelve miles E of Grants Pass and… |
| Wright Post Office |