Springfield, Oregon

USA / Oregon / Springfield /
City to the east of Eugene, population 52,000.

This is the Springfield of The Simpsons. Matt Groening grew up in Portland, Oregon and is familiar with the Eugene-Springfield area. Look at the background terrain in the television show. You can see the same snow-capped volcanic cones (The Three Sisters) from the real Springfield, and the town is also surrounded by evergreen tree-lined ridgetops. Bart Simpson's school principle is named Skinner. Eugene Skinner founded Eugene. The cartoon Springfield was founded by Jedediah Springfield. An early 1800’s explorer in Western Oregon was Jedediah Smith. The statue of Jedediah Springfield in the cartoon town's city park is a dead ringer for a real statue on the University of Oregon campus, "The Pioneer Father." Duff, the name of the beer at Moe’s Tavern in the show, is a logger’s term for the deep collection of needles, moss, and dust that lines an evergreen forest’s floor. The giant industrial facility that dominates Springfield in the real world isn’t a nuclear power plant, it’s the Weyerhaeuser complex that used to house a paper mill, a saw mill, and a plywood factory.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Oregon
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Coordinates:   44°3'37"N   122°57'53"W

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  • This is the Springfield of The Simpsons. Matt Groening grew up in Portland, Oregon and is familiar with the Eugene-Springfield area. Look at the background terrain in the television show. You can see the same snow-capped volcanic cones (The Three Sisters) from the real Springfield, and the town is also surrounded by evergreen tree-lined ridgetops. Bart Simpson's school principle is named Skinner. Eugene Skinner founded Eugene. The cartoon Springfield was founded by Jedediah Springfield. An early 1800’s explorer in Western Oregon was Jedediah Smith. The statue of Jedediah Springfield in the cartoon town's city park is a dead ringer for a real statue on the University of Oregon campus, "The Pioneer Father." Duff, the name of the beer at Moe’s Tavern in the show, is a logger’s term for the deep collection of needles, moss, and dust that lines an evergreen forest’s floor. The giant industrial facility that dominates Springfield in the real world isn’t a nuclear power plant, it’s the Weyerhaeuser complex that used to house a paper mill, a saw mill, and a plywood factory.
  • All I can say is Springtucky
  • Springfield is almost a suburb of Eugene.
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