Pawn was a historic unincorporated community in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon.

[1] It lay at the headwaters of the North Fork Siuslaw River, where Sam Creek and West Branch join to form the river in the Siuslaw National Forest of the Central Oregon Coast Range.

Four area residents combined the first letters of their last names—Poole, Ackerley, Worthington, and Nolen—to manufacture the post office name.

[3] Mail reached Pawn by horse or wagon, sometimes transferred from a boat further downstream.

[4] Before roads connected Pawn to Florence, the community had its own school for children in grades 1 through 8.