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Phoenix is an incorporated city in Jackson County, Oregon, 3 miles southeast of Medford on Interstate 5 in the Rogue Valley, part of the Medford Metropolitan Statistical Area, whose motto is "The Other Phoenix."

The 2020 census counted 4,475 residents in Phoenix, living in 2,028 households, down slightly from 4,538 residents in the 2010 census.

The area was settled around 1850 by brothers Hiram and Samuel Colver, and Samuel Colver laid out the town in 1854.

For a time the settlement was known locally as Gasburg after a talkative employee in the kitchen serving the mill hands, and Sylvester M. Wait, an agent for the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, assigned the official name Phoenix to the community and, in 1857, to its post office.

Phoenix was incorporated in 1910.

On September 8, 2020, much of Phoenix, along with neighboring Talent and parts of Medford and Ashland, was destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire.

Coleman Creek, a tributary of Bear Creek, joins the larger stream at Phoenix, and the Bear Creek Greenway, a biking and hiking trail connecting Ashland, Talent, Medford, and Central Point, passes through the city.

Phoenix is part of the Phoenix-Talent School District, and the city is the site of Phoenix Elementary School and Phoenix High School, as well as Armadillo Technical Institute, a public charter school.

An independent film titled Phoenix, Oregon was produced in 2018 about two characters who live in the city, though it was actually shot in Klamath Falls, and during the COVID-19 pandemic it was the highest-grossing film at the United States box office for three weeks in March and April 2020.

Phoenix's ZIP code is 97535.