Valby is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Morrow County,

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, United States. Valby is the site of a Swedish Lutheran church, built in 1897 by settlers of Swedish descent north of Eightmile. The place name ' or ' is Swedish for a ''community of sheepherders''. Eightmile is along

Oregon Route 206 Oregon Route 206 is an Oregon state highway located in the north-central part of the state. It runs from Interstate 84 at Celilo Village to a junction with Oregon Route 74 and Oregon Route 207 in Heppner. Aside from Interstate 84, Oregon R ...

between Condon and Heppner. In 1983, an article in ''

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'' described the church and congregation as they were then. About 35 people, many of them descendants of the church founders, were traveling from as far away as to attend Sunday services conducted by a pastor from Heppner.

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1897 establishments in Oregon Populated places established in 1897 Unincorporated communities in Morrow County, Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{MorrowCountyOR-geo-stub