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Williams is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Josephine County, Oregon, and the 2020 census recorded its population as 1,102, up from 1,072 in 2010.

Williams was settled in 1881, and its post office was established in 1881 about six miles upstream from Provolt on Williams Creek and two miles west of the Jackson-Josephine county line.

Williams Creek, which flows into the Applegate River, was named for Captain Robert Williams, who fought against Rogue River Indians along the creek during the Rogue River Wars of 1855-56, and there were three different post offices in the area named for their proximity to Williams Creek: Williams, Williamsburg, and Williams Creek.

Williams sits in southeastern Josephine County in the valley of Williams Creek, a north-flowing tributary of the Applegate River and part of the Rogue River watershed, northeast of the Siskiyou Mountains and 19 miles south of Grants Pass, the Josephine County seat.

The Williams CDP covers 11.32 square miles, all of it land, sits at an elevation of 1,380 feet, and uses ZIP code 97544.

Williams is served by the Three Rivers School District, and Williams Elementary School is located in the community.

Williams experiences hot and dry summers and has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, classified as Csb in the Koppen climate classification system.

Musician Steve Miller owned the Lippincott-Wagner House and a 420-acre ranch in Williams from 1976 to 1986, and the house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

Williams remains unincorporated and is counted only as a census-designated place, never as an incorporated city or town.

Williams had a population of 957 in the 1990 census and 783 in the 2000 census before growing to 1,072 in 2010 and 1,102 in 2020.