Table Rock, Oregon

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{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States}}

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|subdivision_name2 = Jackson

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|blank1_info =1136812{{cite web | work = Geographic Names Information System| publisher = United States Geological Survey | date =November 28, 1980| url ={{Gnis3|1136812}}| title = Table Rock| access-date =January 13, 2017}}

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Table Rock is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It lies near the Rogue River along Table Rock Road between White City and Sams Valley.{{cite book |title= Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer |edition= 7th |year= 2008 |publisher= DeLorme |location= Yarmouth, Maine |isbn= 0-89933-347-8 |page=61}} The topographic features known as Upper and Lower Table Rock are slightly west of the community. Between 1853 and 1856, the Table Rock Indian Reservation lay between Upper Table Rock and Evans Creek,{{cite web |url=http://www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/tablerock/table-rock-takelma.php |title=What Happened to the Takelma? |access-date=January 13, 2017|publisher=Bureau of Land Management}} a Rogue River tributary to the west.

A Table Rock post office operated in the vicinity of the two topographic landmarks from 1872 to 1895, until postal authorities changed the office name to Tablerock. Thomas Gianini was the first postmaster. Until the office permanently closed, it continued under the Tablerock name from 1895 through 1906 at varied locations in the valley near the two {{convert|1000|ft|m|adj=on}} mesas.{{cite book |title=Oregon Geographic Names |last=McArthur |first=Lewis A. |author-link=Lewis A. McArthur|author2=McArthur, Lewis L |year=2003 |orig-year=1928 |publisher=Oregon Historical Society Press |location=Portland, Oregon |isbn=0-87595-277-1 |page=933}}

In 1949, the Southern Pacific opened a Table Rock station on its Siskiyou Line between Eugene and Black Butte, California.{{cite book|last=Culp|first=Edwin D.|title=Stations West: The Story of the Oregon Railways|pages=132, 142|publisher=Bonanza Books|location=New York|year=1978|oclc=4751643}} The station was about {{convert|3.5|mi|km}} north of Central Point. The Pacific and Eastern Railway also had a Table Rock station near White City. Formerly known as the Medford and Crater Lake Railroad, it operated on {{convert|34|mi|km}} of track between Medford and Butte Falls.