Lane County is a county in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is named in honor of Joseph Lane, Oregon’s first territorial governor. The seat of the county is Eugene. According to 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data, Lane County has a population of 351,715.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) encompasses the entire Lane County. It is the third largest MSA in Oregon, and the 144th largest in the country.
History of Lane County
Lane County was established on The month of January 29, 1851. It had been produced from southeast Linn County and also the part of Benton County east of Umpqua County. It had been named following the territory’s first governor, Frederick Lane. Initially it covered all southern Or east towards the Rocky Mountain tops and south towards the California border. Once the Territorial Legislature produced Lane County, it didn’t designate a county chair. Within the 1853 election four sites taken part for that designation, which the “Mulligan donation” received a big part election however, because it was contiguous towards the “Skinner claim” both grew to become area of the new county chair referred to as Eugene.
In 1852 John Gemstone and William Macy brought an exploration party to survey a shortcut for that Or Trail over the Cascade Range. The shortcut within the Willamette Pass grew to become referred to as Free Emigrant Road. Around 250 wagons with 1,027 people left the typical Or Trail route at Vale, Or and adopted Elijah Elliott with the central Or desert. This grew to become referred to as Elliott Cutoff. Once they arrived at what’s now Bend, Or they sent scouts towards the south to search for the street. Once settlers within the Willamette Valley discovered the emigrants were coming, an enormous save effort was released because the emigrants lost of supplies as well as in dire condition. The emigrants of the wagon train bending the populace of Lane County in 1853.
It’s been greatly reduced from the original size by a number of boundary changes. Among the first changes gave it accessibility Gulf Of Mexico if this acquired the northern a part of Umpqua County in 1853. With the development of Wasco County in 1854, it lost all its territory east from the Cascade Mountain tops. Minor boundary changes happened with Douglas County in 1852, 1885, 1903, 1915, and 1917 with Linn County in 1907 with Benton County in 1923.