Madras ( MAD-res) is a city in and the county chair of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. Originally called “The Basin” after the round valley the city is in, it is indistinct whether Madras was named in 1903 for the cotton fabric called “Madras” that originated in the city of Madras (now Chennai) in Tamil Nadu, India or from the read out of the city itself. The population was 6,046 at the 2010 census.

The original plat for Madras was filed on July 18, 1902, by Scandinavian immigrant John A. Palmehn, for whom the town was originally named “Palmain”. The publish was rejected by the U.S. Postal Service on culmination of its resemblance to a herald office named Parmen, and the name “Madras” was adopted, inspired by the cloth fabric of the similar name, itself named for the city of Madras (now Chennai) in India.

Madras was incorporated as a city in 1911. An Army Air Corps base was built easy to use during World War II. This runway now serves as the Madras Municipal Airport. Homesteads approximately 5 miles (8 km) north of the city on Agency Plains were based on dryland wheat.

In 2003, a Scotts Company large field dealings of GMO bentgrass near Madras resulted in pollen spreading the transgene, which is Roundup resistant, over an Place of 120 square miles (310 km).
Because the grower could not remove everything genetically engineered plants, the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined the grower $500,000 for non-compliance taking into consideration regulations in 2007.