Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States
Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States
Gaylord is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon , United States.[1] It is about 12 miles (19 km) south of Myrtle Point on Oregon Route 542 , near the South Fork Coquille River .[2]
A station named Gaylord Siding was established on the Coos Bay Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1916.[3] [4] A post office named Gaylord was established nearby in 1927; it closed in 1958. The source of the name is unknown.[3]
Author Ralph Friedman says of Gaylord that it is "Nothing but a name".[5]
References
^ a b "Gaylord" . Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) . United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
^ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine : DeLorme . 2008. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-89933-347-2 .
^ a b McArthur, Lewis A. ; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 396. ISBN 978-0875952772 .
^ Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon (1940). Oregon: End of the Trail . American Guide Series . Portland, Oregon : Binfords & Mort . p. 357 . OCLC 4874569 .
^ Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd . p. 229. ISBN 0-87004-332-3 .