Detroit, OR

Detroit is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. The 2020 census counted 203 residents. Detroit is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The original townsite of Detroit was inundated in the summer of 1952 when the Corps of Engineers finished Detroit Dam on the Santiam River. That mix gives Detroit a clear local shape within Oregon, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. Construction on the concrete Detroit Dam began on April 1, 1949, as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Willamette Valley Project. Detroit is in eastern Marion County, within the Cascade Range. Detroit is on the north side of Detroit Lake, a reservoir on the North Santiam River.