Dellwood 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 Coos County,

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, United States. It is about east of

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, east of

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on the South Fork Coos River. Dellwood was originally named Idlewood, but when a post office was established there in 1940, postal officials did not approve the name because of its similarity to Idleyld in Douglas County. Dellwood was chosen from among several suggestions for its similarity to the old name. The post office closed in 1954. Dellwood is the site of a

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log yard and was once a log dump for sending rafts of logs downriver to Coos Bay for export. Access to the South Fork Coos River above Dellwood for recreational use, including hunting and fishing, is regulated by Weyerhaeuser. The Weyerhaeuser

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at Dellwood was closed in 1991.

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Unincorporated communities in Coos County, Oregon 1940 establishments in Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{CoosCountyOR-geo-stub