Bandon is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States, on the south side of the mouth of the Coquille River. It was named by George Bennet, an Irish peer, who settled to hand in 1873 and named the town after Bandon in Ireland, his hometown. The population was 3,066 at the 2010 census and by the 2020 census 3,321.

Before 1850, the Coquille Indians lived in the area. Then in 1851, gold was discovered at manageable Whiskey Run Beach by French Canadian trappers, though the gold hurry did not have much of an impact on the area. In 1852, Henry Baldwin, from County Cork, Ireland, was shipwrecked on the Coos Bay bar and walked into this area. The first permanent European settlers came in 1853 and traditional the present town site. In 1856, the first conflicts bearing in mind Indigenous Americans in the area arose and those were sent to the Siletz Reservation. In 1859, the boat Twin Sisters sailed into the Coquille River and opened the outlet for everything inland fabricate and resources.

Bandon was founded by the Irish peer George Bennett in 1873. George Bennett, his sons Joseph and George, and George Sealey came from Bandon, Ireland. The afterward year the town’s previous herald of Averille was tainted to Bandon after the town of the thesame name in Ireland. The next-door year, Joseph Williams and his three sons arrived, also from Bandon, Ireland. In 1877, the state office was established. In 1880, cheese making began. That similar year, Congress appropriated child maintenance to construct the jetty. In 1883, the first sawmill, school house, and Catholic church were built. In 1884, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction on the jetty.

George Bennett then introduced gorse (Ulex europaeus) into the local area, which in the when decades went wild and became a nuisance in both the town and in the neighboring countryside. Gorse, a spiny plant, grows fittingly thickly a person cannot mosey through it. It is as a consequence a utterly oily plant, which easily catches fire.