Oregon Census

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Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Oregon, click here

Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Oregon, click here.

State, territorial, and colonial censuses

 * 1905: Baker, Lane Linn, Marion; available at the Oregon State Archives
 * 1895: Linn, Morrow, Multnomah, Marion; available at the Oregon State Archives
 * 1885: Linn, Umatilla; available at the Oregon State Archives
 * 1865: Benton, Columbia, Marion, Umatilla; available at the Oregon State Archives
 * 1859: Clatsop, Umpqua (now Douglas)
 * 1858: Benton, Clatsop, Coos, Curry, Umpqua (now Douglas)
 * 1857: Benton, Clackamas, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Tillamook, Umpqua (now Douglas), Washington
 * 1856: Benton, Clackamas, Columbia, Curry, Polk, Washington
 * 1855: Coos, Jackson
 * 1854: Benton, Clatsop, Jackson
 * 1853: Marion, Polk, Umpqua(now Douglas), Washington, Benton


 *  1842-1859 Provisional and territorial census record of Oregon, 1842-1859 (Salem, Oregon : Oregon State Archives, 1970)[FHL Film 899786].


 * 1850: Washington
 * 1849 Only for the counties of Champoeg, Clackamas, Clatsop, Lewis (part of Wastington State), Linn, Polk, Tuality (now Washington County), Vancouver (part of Washington State), and Yamhill.


 * 1845-46: Tuality (now Washington)
 * 1845: Champoeg (now Marion), Clackamas, Clatsop, Tuality (now Washington), Yamhill
 * 1843: Elijah White Census
 * 1842: Persons living south of the Columbia River


 * 1841-1849 Ronald Vern Jackson, Scott D. Rosenkilde, and W. David Samuelsen, Oregon census records 1841-1849 (North Salt Lake, Utah : Accelerated Indexing Systems, ©1984)[FHL Book 979.5 X22o 1841-1849].

Copies of state and territorial censuses are available at the Oregon State Archives; most state and territorial censuses before 1860 are available at the Family History Library.

Existing and lost censuses
For a list of available and missing Oregon censuses, click here.

Why use a census?
A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.

More about censuses
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 * index searching tips
 * analyzing and using what you find
 * census accuracy
 * historical background
 * contents of various census years and types