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Remote, Oregon

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Remote was named by local pioneers for its distance from other settlements. Its post office was established in 1887. A new post office, besides a store, gas station, and unofficial town hall building, was built in 1924 by L. D. Jennings.
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used to run through the center of the community, but realignment of the highway has left Remote several hundred yards away, along a side road, around a bend and down below the highway, largely shielded by trees from highway view.
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position. Since 2020, the number of job postings with Remote as a placeholder had substantially increased due to an increase in hiring for remote-work positions during the
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The town now consists of a combined store with gas pump and post office (closed in 1998), and a couple of houses. The Sandy Creek Covered Bridge is nearby.
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In the early twenty-first century, the city is being used as a stand-in location on job boards to indicate that the position is a
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Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States
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The post office, store, and gas station in Remote, Oregon.
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Unincorporated community
Remote is located in Oregon
Remote is located in the United States
43°00′21″N 123°53′33″W / 43.00583°N 123.89250°W / 43.00583; -123.89250
Country
State
Oregon
County
Coos
Time zone
UTC-8
Pacific (PST)
DST
UTC-7
GNIS
Remote, Coos County, Oregon off of present-day Highway 42. Photograph of the Post Office, Store, and gas station.
unincorporated hamlet
Coos County
U.S. state
Oregon
Sandy Creek
Middle Fork Coquille River
Oregon Route 42
Nimrod
Boring
odd place names
remote work
COVID-19 pandemic
"Remote"
Geographic Names Information System

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