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Pawn, Oregon
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 44°09′12″N 123°56′55″W / 44.15333°N 123.94861°W / 44.15333; -123.94861
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Lane
Elevation	423 ft (129 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Coordinates and elevation from United States Geological Survey

Pawn was a historic unincorporated community in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lay at the headwaters of the North Fork Siuslaw River, where Sam Creek and West Branch join to form the river in the Siuslaw National Forest of the Central Oregon Coast Range. Downstream is the unincorporated community of Minerva, and further downstream, near the mouth of the river on the Siuslaw River is the city of Florence.

Pawn had a post office from 1915 to 1933. Four area residents combined the first letters of their last names—Poole, Ackerley, Worthington, and Nolen—to manufacture the post office name. One of them, Monroe Poole, was the first postmaster. Mail reached Pawn by horse or wagon, sometimes transferred from a boat further downstream.

Before roads connected Pawn to Florence, the community had its own school for children in grades 1 through 8. Older children boarded in Florence, where they went to high school.

A 21st-century forest trail in the same general vicinity is named after the community. Pawn Trail, managed by the United States Forest Service, forms a 4,000-foot (1,200 m) loop through an old-growth forest. The trail, open all year, is about 18 miles (29 km) from Florence, mostly via forest roads.

References

1. ^ "Pawn". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
2. "United States Topographic Map". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved November 27, 2015 – via ACME Mapper.
3. McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur (2003) . Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 746. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
4. ^ "North Fork Siuslaw River Watershed Analysis" (PDF). United States Forest Service. December 16, 1994. p. 31. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
5. "Pawn Trail #1317". United States Forest Service. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
6. "Pawn Trailhead". United States Forest Service. Retrieved November 27, 2015.

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County seat: Eugene
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Ghost towns	Divide Luper Malabon Yarnell
Indian reservation	Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Reservation‡
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