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Sweet Home is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States, with a population of 9,828 at the 2020 census. [7] Sweet Home is referred to as the 'Gateway to the Santiam Playground' due to its proximity to nearby lakes, rivers and the Cascade Mountains.
Oregon Route 228 is an Oregon state highway that runs between the city of Halsey in the Willamette Valley and the city of Sweet Home in the Cascade foothills. The highway is also known as the Halsey-Sweet Home Highway No. 212 (see Oregon highways and routes ), and is 21 miles (34 km) long.
The state highway system consists of about 8,000 miles (13,000 km) of state highways, that is, roadways owned and maintained by ODOT.When minor connections and frontage roads are removed, that number drops to approximately 7,400 miles (11,900 km) or around 9% of the total road mileage in the state.
In the U.S. state of Oregon, there are two systems for categorizing roads in the state highway system: named state highways and numbered state routes.Named highways, such as the Pacific Highway No. 1 or the North Umpqua Highway East No. 138, are primarily used internally by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) whereas numbered routes, such as Interstate 5 (I-5), U.S. Highway 20 (US ...
U.S. Route 97 (US 97) is a United States Numbered Highway, stretching from Weed, California to the Canadian border in Oroville, Washington. The California portion of US 97 runs north from I-5 in Weed to the Oregon state line. This is the majority of a shortcut between I-5 and Klamath Falls, Oregon, added to both states' state highway systems in ...
Foster Lake, the city of Sweet Home’s water source, has turned the color of chocolate milk, filled at times with 14 times as much sediment as normal. Story updated at 3:46 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 16
The Oregon State Highway Department created a numbered state highway system to complement the U.S. route system on May 18, 1937, and The Dalles-California Highway from Shaniko Junction to The Dalles was numbered as OR 50. [3] OR 50 was renumbered to OR 23 on May 26, 1950, and became the Oregon section of US 197 when it was established in 1952. [3]
Oregon has already burned more acres than all of 2023 and almost 2022. Oregon has burned a whopping 434,821 acres in 30 large wildfires already this season, in addition to issuing 88 evacuation ...