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Madras (/ ˈ m æ d r ə s / MAD-rəss) is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. [5] Originally called "The Basin" after the circular valley the city is in, it is unclear whether Madras was named in 1903 for the cotton fabric called "Madras" that originated in the city of Madras (now Chennai) in Tamil Nadu, India or from the name of the city itself.
Jefferson County was created on December 12, 1914, from a portion of Crook County.The county owes much of its agricultural prosperity to the railroad, which links Madras with the Columbia River, and was completed in 1911, and to the development of irrigation projects in the late 1930s.
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 9 of those are found partially or wholly in Jefferson County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 24, 2025.
Central Oregon is a geographic region in the U.S. state of Oregon and is traditionally considered to be made up of Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook counties. Other definitions include larger areas, often encompassing areas to the north towards the Columbia River, eastward towards Burns, or south towards Klamath Falls.
The collection moved to a new 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m 2) facility at the Madras Municipal Airport in Madras, Oregon in May 2014. [4] [5] The collection repainted its B-17 as Ye Olde Pub in 2019. [6] [a] Shortly after being purchased by the Mid-America Flight Museum in 2020, a B-17G from the Lone Star Flight Museum was ferried to the museum for an ...
The Alex T. Duffy Fairgrounds [2] is a multi-purpose facility in Watertown, New York, spanning 67 acres. The stadium capacity is 3,500. [ 3 ] It contains the longest-running fair in the United States, The Jefferson County Fair , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and was named after Alex T. Duffy.
Crooked River National Grassland is a National Grassland located in Jefferson County in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Oregon. It has a land area of 173,629 acres (70,265 ha). It contains two National Wild and Scenic Rivers, the Deschutes River and the Crooked River.
Willow Creek is a tributary, about 26 miles (42 km) long, of the Deschutes River in central Oregon in the United States. [3] Arising near Foley Butte in the western Ochoco Mountains in Crook County, it flows generally northwest into Jefferson County and through the Crooked River National Grassland.