Yarnell is an unincorporated historic locale in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It was located about 5 miles south of Mohawk, in the Mohawk Valley.
Yarnell was a station on the now-defunct Marcola line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. It was established in 1901, and was likely named for Jere Yarnell, a local resident listed as living in the area in the 1880 census. There was a Yarnell covered bridge about a mile north of the station that carried Hill Road over the Mohawk River. The bridge was built in 1916 and demolished in 1958. In 1915 there was a Yarnell School.
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Historic images of The Yarnell Covered Bridge from Salem Public Library
Images of Yarnell from Flickr
Mohawk Valley history, including several items about Yarnell
History of the Southern Pacific Wendling-Mohawk branch from Abandoned Railroads of the Pacific Northwest