Liberal, Oregon

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title: "Liberal, Oregon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["unincorporated-communities-in-clackamas-county,-oregon", "unincorporated-communities-in-oregon"] description: "Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States" topic_path: "general/unincorporated-communities-in-clackamas-county-oregon" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal,_Oregon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Liberal
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
pushpin_map	USA Oregon#USA
pushpin_map_caption	Location within the state of Oregon
map_caption	Location within Clackamas county
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Oregon
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Clackamas
unit_pref	Imperial
population_as_of	2000
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	Pacific (PST)
utc_offset	-8
timezone_DST	PDT
utc_offset_DST	-7
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft	253
coordinates
postal_code_type	ZIP code
postal_code	97038
area_codes	503 and 971
blank_name	FIPS code
blank1_name	GNIS feature ID
blank1_info	1123065
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The community of Liberal grew up three miles south of Mulino on the south side of the Molalla River. The Liberal crossroads is located at the mutual corners of the donation land claims established in the 1840s by Harrison Wright, William Russell, W. D. Woodcock, James Barnard and Francis Jackson. As the original land claims began to be parceled out, the area was settled in the mid-19th century, primarily by Swiss and German families.

According to local tradition, the community was named after the "liberal" credit practices of the founder of the Liberal Store.

Liberal currently includes the historic Liberal Store, an active sawmill, a chicken feed mill, a multi-generational family farm, and the Evangelical Community Chapel, a church that has continuously held weekly meetings since its founding in 1900.

Economy

The largest employer in Liberal is the RSG Sawmill, a division of the privately held Kalama, Washington-based, RSG Forest Products, Inc. The community's second largest employer is the Victory Seed Company, which operates on the Dunton Family Farm. Satrum-Dybvad Milling, a chicken feed mill, supplies Willamette Egg Farms.

References

References

1. {{GNIS. 1123065
2. "Harrison Wright, emigrant of 1844". Clackamas Heritage Partners.
3. "A History of the Community of Liberal, Oregon". Network Services Group.
4. "Historical Highlights". Evangelical Community Chapel.
5. "Rsg Forest Products Inc". The New Yellow Pages.
6. "Welcome to Dunton Family Farms". Dunton Family Farms.
7. "Satrum-Dybvad Milling (Willamette Egg Farms, LLC)". Manta Media Inc..

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