Rural Residential Settlement in Douglas County, Oregon

A characteristic settlement structure exists in rural portions of nonmetropolitan counties throughout the United States. These development forms represent a locally varying synthesis of urban and rural settlement components. Spatially, they define settlement configurations described as rural residential marchlands. The configuration of the marchland in Douglas County, Oregon, has been shaped by local physical and environmental factors. Agriculture has been revitalized and made more diverse in the county’s marchland of thriving residential land use.