Oregon Route 227
former state highway in Jackson County, Oregon, United States
Oregon Route 227 was an American state highway which originally ran from the city of Canyonville, Oregon to the community of Trail. In 1985, the highway was truncated at the Douglas–Jackson county line; only the southern section remained under state control. It was known as the Tiller–Trail Highway No. 230 (see Oregon highways and routes).
Route description
OR 227 previously began, at its western terminus, at an interchange with Interstate 5 and Oregon Route 99 in Canyonville. It headed east from there, into the foothills of the southern Oregon Cascades, along the South Fork of the Umpqua River. East of the town of Tiller, it diverges from the river, and heads south. The final form of the highway began at the county line and continued southward and ended at an intersection with Oregon Route 62 in Trail.
The section from Interstate 5 to Fifth Street in Canyonville overlapped OR 99.
Major intersections
The entire route is in Jackson County.
“Oregon Route 227” enters the record as former state highway in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oregon, Route and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Oregon Route 227” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oregon, Route and former provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 Apr 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2494786. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985.
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
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This entry incorporates text from “Oregon Route 227” 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.