Suver is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States. It is located about 10 miles north of Corvallis and about 8 miles south of Monmouth, 1 mile east of Oregon Route 99W. Joseph Wellington Suver settled on a donation land claim near Suver in 1845. Suver, the son of John Suver and Catherine Suver, was born in 1814 in Berkeley Co…Suver is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States. It is located about 10 miles north of Corvallis and about 8 miles south of Monmouth, 1 mile east of Oregon Route 99W. Joseph Wellington Suver settled on a donation land claim near Suver in 1845. Suver, the son of John Suver and Catherine Suver, was born in 1814 in Berkeley County, Virginia. When the Oregon & California Railroad was being built through the area in 1880, Joseph Suver bought the present-day site of Suver from his brother-in-law, George W. Pyburn. The town of Suver was platted in 1881. The railroad station on what became the Southern Pacific Railroad line through the community was named Suvers. Another name for the railroad station was Soap Creek. Suver post office was established in 1881 with Sam Cohen as the first postmaster; it ran until 1935. Suver grew to include a store, a sawmill, two warehouses, a grain elevator, a dance hall, a train depot, a blacksmith shop, a shoe repair shop, and several residences by the mid-1890s. Suver school was built in 1895. As of 1915, Suver had a church and its population was 25.
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