Divide is a
ghost town in
Lane County,
Oregon, United States, located southwest of
Cottage Grove, near
Interstate 5.
A post office in
Douglas County near a train station on the
Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the ...
was established on May 31, 1900, and it was closed on January 15, 1921. In 1909, the post office was relisted as a Lane County post office. It may have been moved across county borders, or its county may have changed during a shift in the border between Lane and Douglas counties.
Divide got its name because it is very near the boundary between the
Umpqua River watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
on the west and the
Willamette River watershed on the east. On the west side, water flows into
Pass Creek, and the on the east side it flows into the
Coast Fork Willamette River. Additionally, the southeast edges of the
Siuslaw River watershed are immediately north of Divide.
References
Ghost towns in Oregon
Former populated places in Lane County, Oregon
1900 establishments in Oregon
Populated places established in 1900
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