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

After construction of a railroad line south from Roseburg in 1881–83, Solomon Abraham, the local right-of-way agent, platted the community and named it "Julia" after his wife.

After a dispute with Abraham, A. F. Morris, the chief engineer for the railroad, changed the name to "Glendale".

A Julia post office was established in February 1883, and its name was changed to Glendale in August of the same year.

In the 1880s, Russian-Jewish immigrants came here trying to escape the anti-Semitic rule of Alexander III.

New Odessa, the first Jewish Communitarian Community in America settled near Glendale.

By 1888 the New Odessa Community disbanded due to political and religious division.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.40 square miles (1.04 km2), all of it land.