Tenmile 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
Douglas County, Oregon
Douglas County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 111,201. The county seat is Roseburg. The county is named after Stephen A. Douglas, an American politician who supported Orego ...
, United States.
It is located on
Oregon Route 42
Oregon Route 42 (OR 42) is an Oregon state highway which runs between U.S. Route 101 on the Oregon Coast, near Coos Bay, and Green, a few miles south of Roseburg on Interstate 5. OR 42 traverses the Coos Bay–Roseburg Highway No.&nbs ...
southwest of
Roseburg.
Although Tenmile is unincorporated, it has a post office by the same name.
The
ZIP code is 97481.
History
Tenmile Post Office was so-named because a
pioneer
Pioneer commonly refers to a settler who migrates to previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited land.
In the United States pioneer commonly refers to an American pioneer, a person in American history who migrated west to join in settling and dev ...
drove his
cattle
Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus ''Bos''. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult mal ...
from Happy Valley in Douglas County to an area now known as Tenmile Valley.
The distance between the two places was about 10 miles.
[ The post office was established in 1870 as "Ten Mile" and changed to "Tenmile" in 1918.][
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References
External links
Images of Tenmile Post Office
from waymarking.com
Unincorporated communities in Douglas County, Oregon
1870 establishments in Oregon
Populated places established in 1870
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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