EUGENE, a city of western Oregon, U.S.A., at the head of navigation on the Willamette river, 125m. S. of Portland; the county seat of Lane county and the seat of the State university. It is at the intersection of Federal highways 28 and 99; is served by the Oregon Electric and the Southern Pacific railways; and has a municipal airport. The population in 1920 was 10,593; it was 18,901. The city lies at the edge of a broad fertile prairie, at the foot of a ridge of low hills, with the peaks of the Coast Range visible in the distance. It is the trading and shipping centre for the agricultural, stock-raising and lumbering territory extend ing from the Cascades to the coast, and has manufacturing indus tries which in 1927 produced goods valued at $4,123,314. The University of Oregon and the Eugene Bible university (Dis ciples, established in 1895) are located here. There is fine fishing at many points near the city. Eugene was settled in 1854 and incorporated in 1864.