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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.87 square miles (4.84 km 2), all land. [7]The Santiam Highway (U.S. Route 20) and the McKenzie Highway (Oregon Route 126) merge briefly to form Cascade Avenue, the main thoroughfare through downtown Sisters.
Black Butte Ranch is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated private resort community [5] in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. [6] It is located in the Cascade Range, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Sisters. The population was 366 at the 2010 census. [7]
The Corbett family’s gift of the park was made on condition that the land remain a wilderness area. [1] [3] [4] [5] In August 2003, the area around Blue Lake was burned by the B&B Complex Fires, including most of Corbett State Park. [6] Within a year, the forest began to recover from the fire. [7]
Location of Marion County in Oregon. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Oregon, United States, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
Hinkle was a railway junction where a cutoff to Boardman rejoined the main line of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company that ran from Umatilla to Huntington. [2] When the cutoff was built in 1915, a station was needed at the junction with the main line, and Joseph T. Hinkle , a prominent local attorney, newspaper editor and politician, sold ...
Sister State Park was established in 1939. The park was named for the adjacent town of Sisters. The town of Sisters takes its name from the Three Sisters, three large volcanic mountains located in the Cascade Range overlooking the community. [2] [3] [4] The original 41 acres (17 ha) on the outskirts of Sisters was purchased by Louis W. Hill for ...
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The Sisters School District purchased property for the high school in 1938. The land was bought from the Oregon and Western Colonization Company, which owned unused right-of-way along U.S. Route 20. The 2-acre (0.81 ha) lot acquired for the high school is a triangular parcel of land on the southeast side of Sisters.