Carson 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
Baker County, in the U.S. state of
Oregon
Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...
,
along
Oregon Route 413 about northwest of
Halfway.
In 1870 Tom Corson settled in the area on a tributary of Pine Creek.
His neighbors pronounced his name "Carson" and named the tributary and a
sawmill
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logging, logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes ...
on the creek after him.
[ When the post office was established in 1893, it was named "Carson" as well.][ The town was ]plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1900, the first in Pine Valley.[
]
References
Unincorporated communities in Baker County, Oregon
Populated places established in 1870
1870 establishments in Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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