Peoria, OR

Peoria is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Linn County, Oregon, United States. The 2020 census counted 103 residents. Peoria is on the right bank of the Willamette River at river mile 141 between Eugene and Corvallis. Lacking stores and services, it is a cluster of houses plus a county park along Peoria Road, about 8 miles south of Oregon Route 34 and 12 miles north of Harrisburg. Peoria's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Oregon setting. The local scoop is how Peoria's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Peoria, named for Peoria, Illinois, was first settled in 1851 by H.