Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Lacomb, OR

Lacomb is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Linn County, Oregon, with a population of 575 at the 2020 census.

The CDP covers 3.98 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of 679 feet, and it lies about 10 miles northeast of Lebanon.

Lacomb was named in December 1889 by W. J. Turnidge, a son of a pioneer.

Lacomb has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, and its hottest recorded temperature was 113 degrees Fahrenheit on June 29, 2021, while its coldest was 1 degree Fahrenheit on January 1, 1979.

Lacomb receives about 57 inches of precipitation in an average year, with more than 160 precipitation days.

Lacomb's first school was in use from about 1887 to 1889 and was later used as a woodshed, and a second schoolhouse built in the late 1880s was enlarged in 1904 to allow for two teachers.

In 1891, the Lacomb school enrolled 55 girls and 39 boys under a single teacher, who was paid 55 dollars a month, and the district received 578.75 dollars in state school funds that year.

The school bell bought on May 29, 1890 for 9 dollars became cracked from long use by Lacomb schoolteachers, much like the Liberty Bell.

A three-room Lacomb school building constructed after a 1914 meeting later received a concrete floor from a Works Progress Administration crew in 1934 or 1935.

Lacomb Elementary School now stands on East Lacomb Road in the Lebanon area, and the community is listed with ZIP code 97355.