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Oregon is a city in Lucas County on the Maumee Bay shore of Lake Erie, directly east of Toledo, with the motto 'Oregon on the Bay: City of Opportunity.'

The town was named Oregon by Pierre M. Irving, a nephew of author Washington Irving, who was representing John Jacob Astor's fur-trading interests east of the Maumee River and borrowed the name from Irving's book Astoria, about Astor's ventures in the Oregon Territory.

Oregon Township, the community's first government, was formed in 1838, and Oregon remained a township for more than a century before incorporating as a city in 1958.

Oregon was once part of the Great Black Swamp, and the drainage ditches dug along old Indigenous trails to reclaim the swampy forest land still carry storm water into Maumee Bay today.

Oregon had a population of 19,950 at the 2020 census, making it the second most populous city in Lucas County after Toledo.

According to Census Bureau QuickFacts, Oregon has about 8,025 households, and about 75% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Two major oil refineries — the BP and Sunoco (formerly Sun Marketing) plants that opened around the turn of the 20th century — have historically been among Oregon's largest employers, alongside a coal-fired power plant and chemical plants on the city's industrial northwest side.

The Port of Toledo developed port operations on Maumee Bay in Oregon in 1955, and the Buckeye Pipeline distribution system running through the city is one of the largest of its kind in the region.

Oregon contains much of Maumee Bay State Park, which offers a mile of Lake Erie shoreline, a swimming beach, an 18-hole golf course, a resort lodge and cottages, and camping.

Pearson Metropark, inside the city, preserves one of the last surviving sections of the original Great Black Swamp forest, with trails through mature oak, hickory, ash, and walnut woods.