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Jeffers Garden, Oregon

census-designated place in Clatsop County, Oregon, USA

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5929030 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jeffers Garden is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Its population was 368 as of the 2010 census.

Astoria Marine Construction Company a site on the National Register of Historic Places in Clatsop County, Oregon is in Jeffers Garden on the Lewis and Clark River and the Jeffers Slough. Due to its historical importance the site is on the National Register of Historic Places in Clatsop County, Oregon.

Education

It is in the Astoria School District 1. The comprehensive high school of that district is Astoria High School.

Clatsop County is in the boundary of Clatsop Community College.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jeffers Garden, Oregon” as census-designated place in Clatsop County, Oregon, USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Jeffers, Garden and Oregon can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as census-designated place in Clatsop County, Oregon, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5929030. Authority coordinates are 46.150, -123.858. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jeffers Garden, Oregon”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jeffers Garden, Oregon primary sources, Jeffers Garden, Oregon archive and Jeffers research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jeffers Garden, Oregon”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jeffers Garden, Oregon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.