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Eagle Point is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, incorporated in 1911 and nicknamed "Gateway to the Lakes", with its own ZIP code 97524.

The city covers 2.97 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 1,296 feet.

The 2020 census counted 9,686 residents in Eagle Point, up from 8,469 in 2010, and the city had 3,753 households, 3,896 housing units of which 3.7 percent were vacant, and a median age of 42.1.

Eagle Point's name comes from a rocky cliff near the site that was a favored nesting place for eagles, and resident John Mathews is said to have suggested "Eagle Point" for a proposed post office, which was established in 1872 with Andrew McNeil as first postmaster.

Butte Creek Mill, a water-powered gristmill built in 1872 along Little Butte Creek, operated for more than 125 years, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, burned on Christmas Day 2015, and was rebuilt, selling its first batch of grain in December 2020.

Jim Belushi performed at a May 15, 2016 benefit concert for the mill, and Patrick Duffy, a longtime Eagle Point resident, became the mill foundation's Advisory Director in 2018.

Eagle Point lies north of Medford and White City and south of Shady Cove in the Rogue River Valley along Oregon Route 62, and Little Butte Creek, a tributary of the Rogue River, passes through the city and joins the Rogue a few miles west near TouVelle State Recreation Site and Upper and Lower Table Rock.

Eagle Point has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, and its population grew from 128 in 1920 to 9,686 in 2020.

Notable residents of Eagle Point include Jim Belushi, Patrick Duffy, and Kim Novak.