Drain is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

Drain, who donated 60 acres (24 ha) of nearby land to the Oregon and California Railroad in 1871.

Drain was the starting point for the Drain-Coos Bay stage line, which ran to Scottsburg and then by river steamer to Gardiner and the beach on the south side of the mouth of the Umpqua River.

[7] The Drain Normal School was founded in the community in 1883 by the Methodist Church.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.61 square miles (1.58 km2), all of it land.

In 2014, the city completely closed the bridge, made unsafe by rotting support timbers.

[9] Drain, like most of western Oregon, has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) with dry summers featuring cool mornings and hot afternoons, and chilly, if not severe, wet winters.

During the summer months, days are usually hot and clear, whilst nights are cool: in the summer of 2003 only 0.21 inches (5.3 mm) of rain fell over the three months, and in 1951 no measurable precipitation occurred for ninety-five days between May 24 and August 26.

[14] A decade later it merged with the Cottage Grove Leader in 1895 to form the Echo-Leader and ceased two years later.

Miss Laura E. Jones started the North Douglas Watchman in 1898 and it was discontinued after three years.

The Anderson family bought the Enterprise in 1950[16] and operated it for three generations until closing the paper in 2015.