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Glendale is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, incorporated in 1901, with a population of 858 at the 2020 census and 342 households.

The city covers about 0.4 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of 1,431 feet, and is listed with ZIP code 97442.

Glendale grew up after a railroad line was built south from Roseburg in 1881 to 1883, when Solomon Abraham, the local right-of-way agent, platted the community and named it "Julia" after his wife.

After a dispute with Abraham, A. F. Morris, the railroad's chief engineer, changed the name to Glendale, and the Julia post office established in February 1883 was renamed Glendale in August of the same year, with L. D. Montgomery as the first postmaster.

Fire destroyed much of Glendale's business district in 1928, and the city was quickly rebuilt.

In the 1880s, Russian-Jewish immigrants fleeing the anti-Semitic rule of Alexander III settled near Glendale and founded New Odessa, the first Jewish communitarian community in America, which disbanded by 1888 because of political and religious division.

Glendale's population was 858 in 2020, down 1.8 percent from 874 in 2010, after peaking at 871 in 1950.

The median age in Glendale was 37.4 years at the 2020 census, with 25.9 percent of residents under 18 and 21.1 percent aged 65 or older.

Glendale counted 383 housing units at the 2020 census, of which 10.7 percent were vacant, and 54.7 percent of occupied units were owner-occupied.

Glendale is served by Glendale Jr/Sr High School.