McEwen is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

in Baker County,

Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...

, United States. McEwen lies on

Oregon Route 7 Oregon Route 7 is an Oregon state highway which runs from Interstate 84 at Baker City to U.S. Route 26 at Austin Junction. OR 7 traverses several highways of the Oregon state highway system: Whitney Highway No. 71, part of the La G ...

east of its interchange with

Oregon Route 410 Oregon Route 410 (OR 410) is an Oregon state highway running from Sumpter to OR 7 near Sumpter. OR 410 is known as the Sumpter Highway. It is long and runs east–west, entirely within Baker County. OR 410 was established in 2003 as p ...

. McEwen is about southeast of Sumpter along the Powder River. McEwen was founded as a logging town,

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ted in 1891, and then was a rail stop on the

Sumpter Valley Railway The Sumpter Valley Railway, or Sumpter Valley Railroad, is a narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built on a right-of-way used by the original railway of the same name, it carries excursion trains ...

. It was named after a

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who converted

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's parents to the

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Oregon Geographic Names ''Oregon Geographic Names'' is a compilation of the origin and meaning of place names in the U.S. state of Oregon, published by the Oregon Historical Society. The book was originally published in 1928. It was compiled and edited by Lewis A. McArth ...

links the community name to Thomas McEwen, a

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who filed a land claim here in 1888. The McEwen post office opened in 1893 and closed in 1943.

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