Dixie, Washington County, Oregon

For other places with the same name, see Dixie, Oregon.

Dixie is an unincorporated historic community in Washington County, Oregon, United States.^[1] Dixie post office was established five or six miles southwest of Scappoose in 1887, with John Dix as the first postmaster.^[2] The office was named for the Dix family and not for the U.S. South.^[2] The office closed in 1924, but when real estate was being sold in the area in 1933, a name for the locality was needed for marketing reasons.^[2] When a vote was held at a community picnic around 1936 or 1937, 80 of the attendees chose the name "Dixie" to commemorate the former post office and its postmaster.^[2]

References

↑ "Dixie (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. May 22, 1986. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
1 2 3 4 McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [First published 1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. pp. 293–294. ISBN 9780875952772. OCLC 53075956.

Coordinates: 45°43′49″N 123°00′19″W / 45.730391°N 123.005385°W / 45.730391; -123.005385

Municipalities and communities of Washington County, Oregon, United States

County seat: Hillsboro

Cities	Banks Beaverton Cornelius Durham Forest Grove Gaston Hillsboro King City Lake Oswego‡ North Plains Portland‡ Rivergrove‡ Sherwood Tigard Tualatin‡ Wilsonville‡

CDPs	Aloha Bethany Bull Mountain Cedar Hills Cedar Mill Garden Home–Whitford Metzger Oak Hills Raleigh Hills Rockcreek West Haven–Sylvan West Slope

Unincorporated communities	Blooming Bonny Slope Buxton Carnation Cherry Grove Dilley Farmington Gales Creek Glenwood Hayward Helvetia Kansas City Kinton Laurel Laurelwood Manning Marlene Village Middleton Midway Mountaindale Mulloy Norwood Reedville Roy Scholls Timber Tonquin Verboort West Union Wilkesboro

Ghost towns	Dixie Greenville Thatcher

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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