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503: The northwestern corner of Oregon, including Portland and its metropolitan area, Salem and other cities 541: All of Oregon outside the northwestern corner, including Eugene. 971: An overlay of area code 503. Until 2008, 971 was a concentrated overlay, meaning it was only present in some parts of the 503 area.
Area codes 541 and 458 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of the U.S. state of Oregon, excluding only the northwestern corner of the state. The service area includes the cities of Eugene , Springfield , Corvallis , Albany , Medford , Bend , Ashland , Klamath Falls , The Dalles , Burns , Lakeview , and ...
The first Lowe's store, Mr. L.S. Lowe's North Wilkesboro Hardware, opened in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1921 by Lucius Smith Lowe. [8] After Lowe died in 1940, the business was inherited by his daughter, Ruth Buchan, who sold the company to her brother, James Lowe, for $4,200, [ 9 ] that same year.
In the initial configuration of the nationwide telephone numbering plan designed by AT&T in 1947, [1] the state of Oregon was assigned a single area code, 503. Despite Oregon's growth in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly in the Willamette Valley (Portland and Eugene), this remained so for 48 years, making Oregon one of the largest states by area with a single area code.
Named for the large number of local lakes and springs. 8,293: 7,940 sq mi (20,565 km 2) Lane County: 039: Eugene: 1851: Southern part of Linn County and the portion of Benton County east of Umpqua County: Named for Joseph Lane, the first governor of the Oregon Territory. 381,181: 4,554 sq mi (11,795 km 2) Lincoln County: 041: Newport: 1893
The second-most populous city in Oregon, Eugene had a population of 176,654 as of the 2020 United States census [12] and it covers city area of 44.21 sq mi (114.5 km 2). The Eugene-Springfield metropolitan statistical area is the second largest in Oregon after Portland. [13] In 2022, Eugene's population was estimated to have reached 179,887.
The Oakway Center is a shopping center in Eugene, Oregon.It is one of the three shopping malls in the area. The annual sales are $1 to 2.5 million (D&B: $1,300,000). [1] [2] Oakway Center is anchored by Nordstrom Rack, Old Navy, and Trader Joe's.
A local landmark, it honors city founder Eugene Skinner and is the site of the municipal Skinner Butte Park. During the 1920s the letters "KKK" were burned into the hillside. A famous photo of Eugene's downtown displays this marker, which is credited to Eugene's own Ku Klux Klan members. The letters were removed and replaced with the letter "O ...