Welcome to Watson ...

So far, we found very little information about Watson. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Watson to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Watson, please Contact Us.

Watson would have been located within present day Malheur County<2>.

The location of Watson has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>

While we don't have a date for the founding of Watson, you might consider that their post office opened in 1898.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Watson is 2,660 feet [811 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Watson is ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Watson was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Watson, you will leave Mountain Time and cross into the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT).

The location where Watson once stood is in the (541) & (458)<5> area codes.

Communities Also Named Watson ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Oregon communities named Watson: This one is located in Malheur County and the other is located in Multnomah County.

Beyond Oregon, there are 57 communities that are also named Watson - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas (3), British Columbia, California (2), Colorado, Florida (2), Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana (2), Iowa, Kansas (3), Kentucky (2), Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan (3), Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (2), Montana (2), Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (2), Saskatchewan, Tennessee (4), Texas (3), Utah (2), Virginia, West Virginia and Yukon.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Watson.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We're compiling a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Watson. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Watson.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Watson. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Watson.

Adding Watson to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Watson in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Watson was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Watson post office opened in 1898.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Watson.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Malheur County: www.malheurco.org/

The official website for State of Oregon: https://www.oregon.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Watson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Oregon's counties, including Malheur, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Watson - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>	Area code (458) is an overlay for area code (541).
<6>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/