List of U.S. Place Names of French Origin - Oregon

Oregon

  • Oregon (possibly from "le fleuve aux ouragans", French for "river of the hurricanes", referring to the windiness of the Columbia River)
  • Bonneville (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer)
  • Butteville
  • Charbonneau (named after Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau son of Sacajawea and Toussaint Charbonneau a French-Canadian trapper member of the Lewis & Clark expedition)
  • Coquille ("Shell")
  • Deschutes County ("of the falls")
  • Deschutes River (from rivière des chutes meaning river of the falls)
  • Deschutes National Forest (Waterfalls National Forest)
  • Detroit ("Strait")
  • French Prairie
  • Gervais (A French given name)
  • Grand Ronde ("Big ring")
  • Lafayette
  • La Grande ("The Big / Great One")
  • Langlois (French surname. From "L'Anglais" = the Englishman)
  • La Pine ("The Pine")
  • Malheur County ("Misfortune")
  • Marion County
  • Maupin
  • Nonpareil ("Unparalleled")
  • Rainier
  • Ruch ("Hive")
  • Saint Louis
  • Saint Paul
  • Sauvie Island
  • Terrebonne ("Good ground")
  • The Dalles (from les dalles meaning "slabs" or possibly a type of rapids)
  • Willamette River (French pronunciation of a Clackamas Indian village name)
  • Willamette Valley

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