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The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Oregon: Governor; Oregon Secretary of State; Attorney General; State Treasurer; Commissioner of Labor and Industries; Superintendent of Public Instruction (before 2012) The table also indicates the historical party composition in the: State Senate; State House of ...
The original town was bounded by SE Foster Rd., SE Duke St., SE 92nd Ave, and SE 97th Ave. Lent came to Oregon from Ohio. [3] Lent's town was originally built as a self-sufficient town and suburb of Portland. In 1912, when Lents had a population nearing 10,000, the city of Portland annexed the suburb. [4]
Echo is 8 miles (13 km) south of Hermiston and 20 miles (32 km) west of Pendleton in northeastern Oregon. [8] It lies along the Umatilla River about 1 mile (2 km) south of Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 395.
Much of the U. S. city of Portland, Oregon is built to a grid plan oriented north/south and east/west. However, the streets in the central downtown area are aligned to magnetic north—presumably at the time the area was platted—and so is oriented about 19.25° eastward.
Lakeview is situated in the Goose Lake Valley at the foot of the Warner Mountains and at the edge of Oregon's high desert country. Its economy is based on agriculture, lumber production, and government activities. In addition, tourism is an increasingly important part of the city's economy. Oregon's Outback Scenic Byway passes through Lakeview.
The Oregon Sunstone Public Collection Area, overseen by the Bureau of Land Management, is about 25 miles (40 km) north of Plush. It allows amateur geologists (rockhounds) to remove sunstones—feldspar crystals that formed in lava beds over the past 13 to 14 million years. [13] Sunstone is the Oregon state gemstone. [14]
On September 1, 2009, Google announced that it started collecting images in South Africa for Google Maps Street View. [9] Google is currently driving around South Africa in Toyota Priuses, taking photographs of locations in the cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban and East London.
Alfalfa is a rural unincorporated community [1] in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, in the high desert 16 miles (26 km) east of Bend. [2] Alfalfa was named for the primary forage crop grown there under irrigation. [2] There is a store with gas pumps and a church as the only businesses or services; Alfalfa had a post office from 1912 ...