Row River
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The Row River is a river, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It rises in the Cascade Range and flows into the Coast Fork Willamette River near Cottage Grove. The stream was originally known as the "East Fork Coast Fork", but was later renamed after a dispute between neighbors and brothers-in-law George Clark and Joseph Southwell over "trespassing" livestock.[1] Clark was killed as a result of the row.[1] The name rhymes with "cow" rather than with "slow".[1] A post office named Row River operated from 1911 to 1914 a little north of the present site of Dorena at .[1]
The Row River drains a portion of the Umpqua National Forest on the west face of the central Oregon Cascades between Cottage Grove and Oakridge. The headwaters are near the unincorporated community of Disston where Layng Creek and Brice Creek join at Coordinates: . The river flows predominately westward. Approximately two miles (3 km) from its source, the Row passes over 15 ft (4 m) Wildwood Falls, a popular swimming area.[2] A quarter mile (500 m) later it passes through Lasells D. Steward Park, and a mile later (1.6 km) through the community of Culp Creek. The Row River canyon arcs to the right over the next few miles, until the river flows almost directly northward when it passes through Dorena. About a half mile later, it bends sharply westward, then northwesterly and enters a plain where it is impounded by Dorena Dam to form Dorena Lake. The dam is almost seven river miles above the junction with the Coast Fork Willamette River.
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- ^ a b c d McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur [1928] (2003). Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition, Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press, 828. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
- ^ Wildwood Falls | Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest
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