Medford, Oregon (usa)

Medford, Oregon

Medford, Oregon ranks 5,242nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Aruba, Walton, Liverpool, and Nueva Helvecia. Memorable people born in Medford, Oregon include Jason James Richter, Jonathan Stark, and Kyle Singler. Memorable people who died in Medford, Oregon include Fred Kelly. Medford, Oregon has been the birth place of many actors, and tennis players and the death place of many athletes. Medford, Oregon is located in United States.

Medford is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census on April 1, 2020, the city had a total population of 85,824, making it the eighth-most populous city in Oregon, and a metropolitan area population of 223,259, making the Medford MSA the fourth largest metro area in Oregon. The city was named in 1883 by David Loring, civil engineer and right-of-way agent for the Oregon and California Railroad, after Medford, Massachusetts, which was near Loring's hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. Medford is near the middle fork of Bear Creek. Read more on Wikipedia