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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
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, 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
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on the creek after him. When the post office was established in 1893, it was named "Carson" as well. The town was
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ted in 1900, the first in Pine Valley. The platted area was small even by northeastern standards: 12 blocks. Carson lost out as a rural service center to the nearby Langrell. In 1940 Carson had a population of 90. The post office closed in 1952.


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Unincorporated communities in Baker County, Oregon Populated places established in 1870 1870 establishments in Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{BakerCountyOR-geo-stub