Peel is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.[1] It is located about six miles southeast of Glide near the Little River.[2]
Peel post office was established in 1888 and named for congressman Samuel W. Peel of Arkansas.[3] Peel is one of the few places in the American West named for a Confederate soldier.[4] In 1915 Peel had a public school and a daily stagecoach to Roseburg.[4] The post office closed in 1921.[3][4][5] The 1943 Cavitt Creek Bridge, a covered bridge, is about a mile south of the community.[4]