Corbett, Oregon

Corbett is located in Multnomah County between the Sandy River and Crown Point, about 18 miles east of Portland, Oregon.

Town Website: http://www.corbettoregon.com/

This community on the Historic Columbia River Highway between the Sandy River and Crown Point was named for Senator Henry Winslow Corbett, one of Oregon's prominent pioneer citizens, for many years a resident of Portland. Mr. Corbett owned a farm nearby. For a concise biography of Mr. Corbett, see Cary's History of Oregon, v. 2, p. 305. Scott's History of the Oregon Country has biographical information about Senator Corbett in V.1, pp. 108 and 280, and Harvey W. Scott's tribute, v.5, p. 183. For many years there was a station named Corbett on the Union Pacific Railroad at the base of the bluff below the community. The station is gone but there is a small commercial cluster where a road leaves I-84 and climbs the hill to connect to the historic highway. Corbett post office was established Dec. 20, 1895, with William H.H. Reed first postmaster. -- Source: Oregon Geographic Names, Sixth Edition, 1992, Lewis L. McArthur, Oregon Historical Society Press, ISBN O-87595-237-2.