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Toledo is a city in Lincoln County, Oregon, on the Yaquina River and along U.S. Route 20, with ZIP code 97391.

The 2020 census counted 3,546 people in Toledo, living in 1,369 households, with a median age of 38.5 years.

European-American settlement began in 1866, when John Graham, his son Joseph, and William Mackey claimed land under the Homestead Act of 1862, and the site was first called Graham's Landing.

Joseph D. Graham named the post office, established in 1868, for Toledo, Ohio, because he was homesick, and William Mackey was the first postmaster.

Toledo became the county seat of the newly established Lincoln County in 1893, incorporated in 1893 and reincorporated in 1905, and held the county seat until it moved to Newport in 1953.

In 1918 the Port of Toledo leased land to the Spruce Production Division for a sawmill to cut airplane frames for World War I, and the Pacific Spruce Corporation bought the mill in 1920; Georgia-Pacific acquired the operation in 1952 and turned it into a pulp mill by 1957.

Toledo is known for the Toledo incident of 1925, when a mob forced a Japanese labor crew hired to sort lumber at the sawmill to leave town, and one of the expelled men, Tamakichi Ogura, later won $2,500 in damages in federal court.

Between 1927 and 1944 the Creamery Package Manufacturing Company operated a sawmill and cooperage in Toledo that produced up to two million spruce butter tubs a year.

Toledo was a 2009 All-America City Award finalist.

The city's two public schools, Toledo Elementary School and Toledo High School, are part of the Lincoln County School District, and Toledo High School serves students in seventh through twelfth grade.