Woodstock Multnomah County, Oregon


Mapped Location

Woodstock: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Woodstock

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Woodstock

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Woodstock Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Woodstock

References to Woodstock that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Oregon geographic names

WOODSTOCK, a station of Portland postoffice. It bears the name of a real estate tract platted in 1889. At that time there was a vogue for naming tracts after Sir Walter Scott's novels, and in the southeast part of Portland we have Woodstock, Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, Waverly, sic., and even such flights of fancy as Waverleigh. The word 'stoc' came from the Anglo-Saxon and means a stockaded place, and woodstock means a place fortified with wooden posts. Woodstock was an independent post office from 1891 to 1912.

Lewis A. McArthur in Oregon Geographic Names

 

Last updated: 2024-06-05