Valby is an unincorporated community in Morrow County, Oregon, United States. Valby is the site of a Swedish Lutheran church, built in 1897 by settlers of Swedish descent 5 miles (8 km) north of Eightmile.[2] The place name valby or vallby is Swedish for a community of sheepherders.[2] Eightmile is along Oregon Route 206 between Condon and Heppner.[3]

Valby, Oregon
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 45°18′59″N 119°50′29″W
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Morrow
Elevation	2,388 ft (728 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code(s)	458 and 541
GNIS feature ID	1136860[1]
Coordinates and elevation from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)[1]

In 1983, an article in The Oregonian described the church and congregation as they were then. About 35 people, many of them descendants of the church founders, were traveling from as far away as 20 miles (32 km) to attend Sunday services conducted by a pastor from Heppner.[4]

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