This community, located on the Historic Columbia River Highway between the Sandy River and Crown Point, was named after Senator Henry Winslow Corbett. Mr. Corbett owned a farm nearby and was one of Oregon's prominent pioneer citizens and for many years lived in Portland.

There was also a station named Corbett on the Union Pacific Railroad at the base of the bluff below the community. The station is gone but there is a road that leaves I-84 at exit 22 and climbs the hill to connect to the historic highway. Corbett's post office was established Dec. 20, 1895, with William H.H. Reed first postmaster.

 

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