Deadwood is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 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

Oregon

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, United States

United States

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. It is located on Oregon Route 36, in the Oregon Coast Range

Oregon Coast Range

The Oregon Coast Range, often called simply the Coast Range and sometimes the Pacific Coast Range, is a mountain range, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region, in the U.S. state of Oregon along the Pacific Ocean...

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Deadwood was named after Deadwood Creek, a tributary of 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...

. Deadwood Creek was so-named because of the dead timber

Timber

Timber may refer to:* Timber, a term common in the United Kingdom and Australia for wood materials * Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S...

 snag

Snag

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s next to its banks, which had resulted from a series of wildfire

Wildfire

A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...

s in the area. Deadwood post office was established in 1884. The post office was discontinued to the community of Greenleaf

Greenleaf, Oregon

Greenleaf is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States and has a post office with a ZIP code of 97430. Greenleaf lies on Oregon Route 36 east of Deadwood and west of Triangle Lake.-History:...

 in 1914, but was reestablished in 1950.

Deadwood is the home of Alpha Farm, an intentional community

Intentional community

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 established in 1971. The farm owns the Alpha Bit, a café and book/gift store in Mapleton

Mapleton, Oregon

Mapleton is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located on Oregon Route 126 and the Siuslaw River, 45 miles west of Eugene and 15 miles east of Florence. It is also the western terminus of Oregon Route 36...

. Other residents include the artists Ernie and Mary Lou Goertzen

Mary Lou Goertzen

Mary Lou Goertzen is an American artist, peace activist and Mennonite.Mary Lou and her late husband Ernie are the subjects of the documentary Kind, True and Necessary by James Knight. The film documents their life of art, Christian pacifism and simple living. Ernie was a conscientious objector...

who lived in the old Deadwood schoolhouse from 1975.