Gaylord 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 ...

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, United States. It is about south of

Myrtle Point Myrtle Point is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States, established in 1887. The population was 2,514 at the 2010 census. Located in the Coquille River Valley, Myrtle Point is part of the Coos Bay/ North Bend/ Charleston Metropolitan Stati ...

Oregon Route 542 Oregon Route 542 (OR 542) is an Oregon state highway running from OR 42 near Myrtle Point to Powers. OR 542 is known as the Powers Highway No. 242 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs north–south, entirely within C ...

, near the

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. A station named Gaylord Siding was established on the Coos Bay Line of the

Southern Pacific Railroad The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Railroad classes#Class I, Class I Rail transport, railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was oper ...

in 1916. A post office named Gaylord was established nearby in 1927; it closed in 1958. The source of the name is unknown. Author

Ralph Friedman Ralph Friedman (June 3, 1916 – June 3, 1995) was an American author, best known for his books about Oregon, which included travel guides and popular histories. Born and raised to an impoverished Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family in Chicago, ...

says of Gaylord that it is "Nothing but a name".

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Unincorporated communities in Coos County, Oregon 1927 establishments in Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{CoosCountyOR-geo-stub