Gold Hill is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States.

The city's name comes from a nearby hill that was the location of a 19th-century gold discovery, on "Big Bar” on the Rogue River in the early 1850s.

In 1852, Colonel William T'Vault and family made a claim, naming it Dardanelles, on the south side of the Rogue.

Gold Hill became world famous for its production of cement from area limestone deposit's.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.77 square miles (1.99 km2), all of it land.

Gold Hill is connected to Shady Cove to the northeast by Oregon Route 234.

North of Gold Hill is Nugget Falls, a popular destination for whitewater kayaking.

The Gold Hill Historical Society maintains a free museum in the 1901 Beeman–Martin House that is open Thursday through Saturday.

The stamp mill was built by Union Iron Works of San Francisco, California (1892)[11] The stamp mill was purchased then shipped to for the Lucky Bart Mining Company of Sacramento to Gold Hill in the spring of 1893.