# Corbett, Oregon

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This article is about the community on the Columbia River. For the area in Portland, see [South Portland, Portland, Oregon](/source/South_Portland,_Portland,_Oregon).

**Corbett** is an [unincorporated town](/source/Unincorporated_area) on the [Columbia River](/source/Columbia_River) in eastern [Multnomah County](/source/Multnomah_County,_Oregon), [Oregon](/source/Oregon), United States. It is located on the [Historic Columbia River Highway](/source/Historic_Columbia_River_Highway) (a.k.a. Crown Point Highway) between the [Sandy River](/source/Sandy_River_(Oregon)) and [Crown Point](/source/Crown_Point_(Oregon)). It is located east of [Portland](/source/Portland,_Oregon) on Interstate 84.

Corbett was named for prominent Oregon pioneer Senator [Henry W. Corbett](/source/Henry_W._Corbett).[2] Senator Corbett purchased a farm,*The Highlands*, in the area in 1885 that he used as a summer retreat, high up on the Columbia River Gorge on the bluff with a panoramic view overlooking the river. A little over ninety years before, in 1792, the river below had first been seen by a white man when it was charted by one of [Captain George Vancouver](/source/Captain_George_Vancouver)'s ships.[3] Ten years later, this bluff had first been gazed upon by the first Americans to come overland to the West when [Lewis and Clark](/source/Lewis_and_Clark) passed by on the river below.[3] And around 1812 [David Thompson](/source/David_Thompson_(explorer)) had been the first to map its wilderness for the [Hudson's Bay Company](/source/Hudson's_Bay_Company).[3] Henry Corbett's farm gave the name to the town of Corbett, later established nearby. The farm was reached by one of Corbett's rail cars of the [Oregon Railway and Navigation Company](/source/Oregon_Railway_and_Navigation_Company) (OR&N) of which he was the major stockholder. The OR&N track had been completed along the gorge by 1882. This was over 30 years before the [Highway](/source/Historic_Columbia_River_Highway) had been built between along it between 1913 and 1922. His visitors disembarked at the OR&N Corbett stop so there was already a Corbett station of sorts before the town was named after him. After several name changes, the post office in the area was named "Corbett" in 1895.

[Corbett School District](/source/Corbett_School_District) runs the [Corbett School](/source/Corbett_School) and the Corbett Charter School.

## Notable people

- [Henry W. Corbett](/source/Henry_W._Corbett), Oregon pioneer who owned farm overlooking the Columbia River Gorge here and town is named after
- [Julius Meier](/source/Julius_Meier), politician
- [Billy Oskay](/source/Billy_Oskay), musician
- [Patti Smith](/source/Patti_Smith_(politician)), politician
- [Fritz Springmeier](/source/Fritz_Springmeier), author
- [Dave Stief](/source/Dave_Stief), football player

## References

1. Peter C. Newman Vol. II, *Company of Adventurers, the History of the Hudson's Bay Company: Caesars of the Wilderness*, Viking Penguin Canada Ltd., 1987

## External links

- [Privately owned Corbett community website](http://corbettoregon.com/)

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