Lane County, Oregon Genealogy

United States Oregon  Lane County

Quick Dates
Lane County's civil records start the following years:

Historical Facts


Named for, the first governor of Oregon Territory.

Boundary Changes
28 January 1851: Lane county was created from Linn and Umpqua Counties.

11 January 1854: Part was taken to form Wasco County.

Trivia Tidbits
Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. Trivia Tidbits

Places/Localities
To see a list of places in Lane County, click on [Show], above. Localities listed in red have no wiki page yet. As records or histories of these localities are identified, a page will be added for each of these place names.

Biography
Trivia Tidbits: Little biographic bits associated with the names of non-population localities.

Repositories

 * Lane County Archive and Records Center
 * Lane County Historical Museum
 * Lane County Public Service Building
 * Lane Education Service District
 * Oregon State Archives
 * Oregon Historical Society
 * University of Oregon, Knight Library

Rivers and Waterways
Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. Rivers and Waterways

Websites

 * The Lane County GenWeb Project part of The ORGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * USGenWeb Archives
 * USGenWeb Archives (backup site)