Grand Ronde is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Polk and Yamhill counties, Oregon, United States. Historically noted as a village in Polk County, the sphere of have emotional impact and community is in both Polk and Yamhill counties. The state of the community is a variation of the French Grande Ronde or “Grand Round” which could behave reference to the large circular up of Native Americans peoples in the area who were settled upon what was known as the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, or possibly referencing the upset of the valley in which the community is located. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,661 people in 658 households are residing in Grand Ronde. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area.

On January 4, 1855, a pact between the various bands of Kalapuyans and Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs Joel Palmer was effected, calling for the various bands to separate to a reservation to be expected by the government. For this objective the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation was opened on June 30, 1857, covering 60,000 acres in northwest Polk and southwest Yamhill counties. A census conducted in 1870 reported and no-one else 47 Yamels and 36 Luckiamutes on the reservation; in 1910 the Yamels numbered five, the Luckiamutes, eight. By the decrease of the historic era the Kalapuyan people no longer existed as a determined cultural-racial entity.

According to a Cultural Resources Report from the Oregon Department of transportation, the town of Grand Ronde began as “New Grand Ronde” in not quite 1908 behind the first large groups of Indians were desertion the Reservation and establishing their own farms and ranches under the Dawes Act. In 1921, International Harvester laid out a town site. In 1922 the company built nine miles of track from Willamina to Grand Ronde, calling it the Willamina and Grand Ronde Railroad. The rude railroad combined the Place with the Southern Pacific railroad at Willamina. The railroad helped the timber industry to thrive and made it viable for lumber mills to amass and to dominate the economy of the area. Grand Ronde became the middle of withhold services for mill workers and a train depot, store, hotel, movie theater, diner, gas station, bank, post office, church and a small residential Place were built.

The Spaulding-Miami Lumber Company created and owned the town proper in the before 1920s as allowance of its logging operations. A rail stock and several related buildings were built as skillfully as a hotel. A spur of the railroad headed south out of the town across Rock Creek and into the coastal range. Electricity was brought to the town in 1922 according to the Lumber World Review, Volume 42, published in January 1922.