Cold Springs, Oregon

Cold Springs is an unincorporated community in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States, south of the Columbia River in the Hermiston area. Cold Springs Junction is a populated place and highway junction about four miles northeast of Cold Springs at the junction of Oregon Route 37 and U.S. Route 730.[1]

The present-day Cold Springs was a station of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company,[2] which is the Union Pacific Railroad today.[3] Its elevation is 574 feet (175 m).[4]

One of several geographic features in the area—including Cold Springs Wash, Cold Springs Reservoir and Cold Springs Canyon—that were likely named after a local spring, Cold Springs post office was established in 1880 and ran until 1883.[3] It was in the Middle Fork Cold Springs Canyon west of Myrick and east of the reservoir about 28 miles northeast of Cold Springs station.[5] The reservoir was formed in the early 1900s when the wash was dammed to provide storage for water diverted from the Umatilla River for irrigation.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cold Springs Junction". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
  2. ↑ Avers, Henry G. (1926). "First-Level Ordering in Oregon" (PDF). United States Department of Commerce: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
  3. 1 2 3 McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
  4. ↑ "Cold Springs". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
  5. ↑ "Cold Springs Post Office (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 1, 1994. Retrieved 2009-12-24.

Coordinates: 45°52′42″N 119°09′56″W / 45.878466°N 119.165566°W / 45.878466; -119.165566

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