Promise is an unincorporated community in northern Wallowa County, Oregon, United States.

[1] It is located about 25 road miles south of Troy and 8 miles north of Maxville on a remote ridge south of the Grande Ronde River.

[2][3] The area was first homesteaded by John C. Phillips and Daniel W. Mann in about 1891.

[4] Thomas C. Miller was the first postmaster, and the office ran until 1944.

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