Southern Oregon

This article is about the southern region of the U.S. state of Oregon. For the University, see Southern Oregon University. For the Oregon wine region, see Southern Oregon AVA.
Dark red denotes counties that are always included in the definition, while light red denotes counties that are only sometimes included.

Southern Oregon is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon south of Lane County and generally west of the Cascade Range, excluding the southern Oregon Coast. Counties include Douglas, Jackson, Klamath, and Josephine. It includes the Southern Oregon American Viticultural Area, which consists of the Umpqua and Rogue River drainages. As of 2015, the population in the four counties is about 471,000, and in the greater, seven-county definition, it is about 564,000.[1][2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference USCensusEst2015 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Population Estimates for Oregon and its Counties" (PDF). Population Research Center, Portland State University. December 15, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 26, 2008.