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2410460 [3] Website. www .eugene-or .gov. Eugene ( / juːˈdʒiːn / yoo-JEEN) is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Oregon Coast. [9]
The University of Oregon ( UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, [8] the university also has two Portland locations, and manages a marine station, called the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, in Charleston; and an observatory, called Pine Mountain Observatory, in Central Oregon .
Lane County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 382,971, [2] making it the fourth-most populous county in Oregon. The county seat is Eugene, the state's second most populous city. [3] It is named in honor of Joseph Lane, Oregon's first territorial governor.
Oregon ( / ˈɒrɪɡən, - ɡɒn / ⓘ ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) [7] [8] is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Oregon is a part of the Western United States, with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho.
Coordinates: 44.058356°N 123.105326°W. Whiteaker Neighborhood (Eugene, Oregon) Whiteaker (almost exclusively called " the Whiteaker") is a neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is located to the northwest of downtown Eugene, and is home to primarily working class residents. Though it has served as an agricultural and commercial ...
Eugene Airport. / 44.12306°N 123.21861°W / 44.12306; -123.21861. Eugene Airport ( IATA: EUG, ICAO: KEUG, FAA LID: EUG ), also known as Mahlon Sweet Field, is a public airport 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Eugene, in Lane County, Oregon, United States. Owned and operated by the City of Eugene, it is the fifth-largest airport in the ...
Eugene has a long history of community activism, civil unrest, and protest activity. [1] Eugene's cultural status as a place for alternative thought grew along with the University of Oregon in the turbulent 1960s, and its reputation as an outsider's locale grew with the numerous anarchist protests in the late 1990s.
44°02′45″N 123°04′33″W. / 44.04578°N 123.07579°W / 44.04578; -123.07579. The Pioneer is a thirteen-foot-tall bronze sculpture formerly located on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was the artistic work of Alexander Phimister Proctor, commissioned by Joseph Nathan Teal, a Portland attorney.