Weston is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.

It was originally a post office called Mitchell's Station, established in February 1867.

Lieuallen renamed the post office after his hometown, Weston, Missouri.

When his novel, written according to the tenets of the New Realism literary movement (established years before by Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis and others) was published in 1930, many of the residents were convinced that his characters were based on local inhabitants, and considered the work a slander against the town.

"[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.68 square miles (1.76 km2), all of it land.

[9] Weston is located at the foot of the Blue Mountains, on Pine Creek.

This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 69 °F (21 °C).

27.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.