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Lafayette is an incorporated city in Yamhill County, Oregon, on the Yamhill River and Oregon Route 99W, and its population was 4,423 at the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 1,424 households and 1,455 housing units in Lafayette, and the median age of its residents was 33.6 years.

Lafayette was founded in 1846 by pioneer Joel Perkins, who had previously lived in Lafayette, Indiana, and named the new settlement after Marquis de Lafayette, a general in the American Revolutionary War.

The post office was established in 1851, and the city was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 17, 1878.

Lafayette was the county seat of Yamhill County from its founding until 1889, when county residents voted to move the county seat to McMinnville.

The city is located on State Highway 99W between McMinnville and Dundee, and it covers about 0.90 square miles.

The Yamhill County Museum is located in Lafayette, and the Evangelical Church of Lafayette on Market Street is one of four sites in the city listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A lock and dam on the Yamhill River was completed about 1.5 miles downriver from Lafayette in 1900, was decommissioned in 1954, and was deliberately destroyed in 1963 to allow better passage for salmon, and the site is now a county park.

Lafayette's parks include Abigail Scott Duniway Park, Commons Park, Community Pride Park, Joel Perkins Park, Plantation Park, Terry Park, and Veteran's Park, and the city also has the Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery.

Local folklore holds that the ghost of a woman accused of witchcraft in the 1800s haunts the Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery, a legend sometimes called the witch of Lafayette.