|— City —| |• Mayor||Ted Crawford| |• Total||1.35 sq mi (3.50
km2)| |• Land||1.33 sq mi (3.44 km2)| |• Water||0.02 sq mi (0.05
km2)| |Elevation||189 ft (57.6 m)| |• Estimate (2011)||3,188| |•
Density||2,377.4/sq mi (917.9/km2)| |Time zone||Pacific (UTC-8)|
|• Summer (DST)||Pacific (UTC-7)| |GNIS feature ID||1166649| The
first post office in the area was Ekins, established in 1881.
Dundee is named in honor of the birthplace of William Reid,
Dundee, Scotland. Reid came to Oregon in 1874 to establish the
Oregonian Railway, and made several extensions to the railroad
in the western Willamette Valley. The Ekins post office was
closed in 1885 and a new office opened in 1887, named "Dundee
Junction". The name derived from plans to build a bridge across
the Willamette River for the railroad, which would have called
for a junction at Dundee between the west railroad and the new
east railroad. The bridge was never built, however, and the post
office was renamed "Dundee" in 1897. Dundee is two miles
southwest of the cit