Nolin, Oregon

Nolin, Oregon
Unincorporated community
Nolin, Oregon
Coordinates: 45°40′59″N 119°06′04″W / 45.683°N 119.101°WCoordinates: 45°40′59″N 119°06′04″W / 45.683°N 119.101°W
Country United States
State Oregon
County Umatilla
Elevation 738 ft (225 m)
Time zone Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)
 • Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
ZIP code 97826
Area code(s) 458 and 541

Nolin is an unincorporated community in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.[1] Nolin is about eight miles southeast of Echo, next to the Umatilla River.[2] At one time the area was known as "Happy Canyon".[3] Adam "Ad" W. Nye, a settler of the 1860s, named the Nolin area Happy Canyon, for the spirit of the people who lived there.[3] The name was later adopted by Pendleton Round-Up for its indoor show in commemoration of this time.[3] Nye was County Sheriff from 1872-74.[3] The nearby community of Nye was named for him.[4]

At one time Nolin had a post office, a store, and a school.[3][5][6] Nolin also has a cemetery.[7] An Oregon Railway and Navigation Company (now Union Pacific) railroad line was built through Nolin, crossing the Umatilla River on a steel bridge constructed in 1907.[8][9]

The Cunningham Sheep Ranch, founded in the 1880s by Charles Cunningham, is based in Nolin.[3] It was once one of the largest sheep-raising operations in the United States. Today it raises rambouillet sheep.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Nolin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
  2. ↑ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 73. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Echo's Cultural Inventory". City of Echo, Oregon. January 2002. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
  4. ↑ McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [First published 1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 711. ISBN 9780875952772. OCLC 53075956.
  5. ↑ "Nolin Post Office (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 1, 1994. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
  6. ↑ Furlong, Charles Wellington. "Let 'er Buck: A story of the Passing of the Old West". Retrieved 2010-12-22.
  7. ↑ "Nolin Cemetery". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. May 22, 1986. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
  8. ↑ "Equipment and Supplies: Railway Bridges". The Railway Age (The Wilson Company) 43: 587. April 5, 1907.
  9. ↑ Wood, Stanley (1904). Over the Range to the Golden Gate A Complete Tourist's Guide To Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the Great Northwest.

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