{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Delena, Oregon |settlement_type = Unincorporated community <!-- Maps --> |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |pushpin_map = Oregon#USA |pushpin_label = Delena

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'''Delena''' is an unincorporated community in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 30 slightly west of Alston and about halfway between Rainier on the east and Clatskanie on the west.<ref name=Atlas>{{cite book |title= Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer |edition= 7th |year= 2008 |publisher= DeLorme |location= Yarmouth, Maine |isbn= 0-89933-347-8 }}</ref>

Delena had a post office that operated intermittently from April 22, 1892, to March 15, 1922. Lincoln J. Meserve was the first of nine postmasters at this location.<ref name="OGN">{{Cite OGN|7th|276}}</ref> Accounts of the origin of the community's name have varied, according to ''Oregon Geographic Names'' (OGN). It may refer to a mythological name that Meserve found in a book or it may be the name of someone in Meserve's family or it may refer to a place in Nebraska. In 1947, W. N. Meserve, Meserve's brother, told the OGN compiler that the mythological explanation was correct, and the compiler could find no place named Delena in Nebraska.<ref name="OGN"/>

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Columbia County, Oregon Category:Unincorporated communities in Oregon

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