Linslaw is an unincorporated community in Lane County

Lane County, Oregon

-National protected areas:*Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge *Siuslaw National Forest *Umpqua National Forest *Willamette National Forest -Government:...

, Oregon

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, United States

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. It is located about eight miles west of Walton

Walton, Oregon

Walton is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located halfway between Eugene and Florence on Oregon Route 126....

 on Oregon Route 126 next to the Siuslaw River

Siuslaw River

The Siuslaw River is a river, approximately 110 mi long, along the Pacific coast of Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of approximately in the Central Oregon Coast Range southwest of the Willamette Valley and north of the watershed of the Umpqua River.It rises in the mountains...

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In 1917, when a petition was sent to the United States Post Office Department

United States Post Office Department

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 for a post office at this locale, it was approved with the name "Linslaw". Locals could not explain the source of the name, but the author of Oregon Geographic Names

Oregon Geographic Names

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has a theory that the name was supposed to be "Siuslaw", and the handwriting on the petition was unclear and misread as "Linslaw". Linslaw post office was closed in 1957. The Coos Bay Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad had a station here. Today this line is owned by the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad

Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad

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