Derry is an unincorporated locale in

Polk County, Oregon Polk County is one of the Oregon counties, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 87,433. The county seat is Dallas, Oregon, Dallas. The Oregon Geographic Names, county is ...

, United States. It is located about 10 miles west of Salem and one mile east of Rickreall. Derry was originally a station on the

Southern Pacific The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the names ...

line (now the Portland and Western). Local resident

James Nesmith James Willis Nesmith (July 23, 1820 – June 17, 1885) was an American politician and lawyer from Oregon. Born in New Brunswick to American parents, he grew up in New Hampshire and Maine. A Democrat, he moved to Oregon Country in 1843 where h ...

named it for

Derry, New Hampshire Derry is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 34,317 at the 2020 census. Although it is a town and not a city, Derry is the most populous community in Rockingham County and the 4th most populous in the ...

, where his family once lived. In 1912, ''

The Oregonian ''The Oregonian'' is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the West Coast of the United States, U.S. West Coast, founded as a weekly by Tho ...

'' reported on an unsuccessful effort to change the name of the station to

Loganberry The loganberry (''Rubus'' × ''loganobaccus'') is a hybrid of the North American blackberry ('' Rubus ursinus'') and the European raspberry (''Rubus idaeus''), accidentally bred in 1881 by James Harvey Logan, for whom they are named. They are ...

. Just southeast of Derry there was a station on the

Salem, Falls City and Western Railway The Salem, Falls City and Western Railway (SFC&W) was an American railroad based in Polk County, Oregon that ran between Salem and Black Rock via Dallas and Falls City. History In October, 1901, Louis Gerlinger, Sr. and Charles K. Spaulding a ...

named Derry Orchard.

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External links

Historic images of Derry
from Salem Public Library
Images of Derry
from Flickr Unincorporated communities in Polk County, Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{PolkCountyOR-geo-stub