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Josephine County
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county in Oregon, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oregon
- Founded
- January 22, 1856
- Named after
- Virginia “Josephine” Rollins
- Seat
- Grants Pass
- Largest city
- Grants Pass
- Total
- 1,642 sq mi (4,250 km )
- Land
- 1,640 sq mi (4,200 km )
- Water
- 2.2 sq mi (5.7 km ) 0.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 87,867
- Density
- 50/sq mi (19/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- josephinecounty .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Josephine County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 88,090. The county seat is Grants Pass. The county is named after Virginia Josephine Rollins (1834–1912), a settler who was the first white woman to live in the county's boundaries. Josephine County comprises the Grants Pass, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Medford-Grants Pass, OR Combined Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Josephine County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.