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It was established in 1912 to support the employees of the Algoma Lumber Company. The Algoma lumber mill was built on a 26-acre (0.11 km 2) site in Plum Valley near the southwest corner of Algoma Marsh, a 1,300-acre (5.3 km 2) meadowland between Barkley Springs to the
Dry Creek is a tributary, 54 miles (87 km) long, of Crooked Creek in the U.S. state of Oregon. [3] The creek, which is intermittent, begins in the desert near Five Points in Malheur County. [5] It joins Crooked Creek east of Burns Junction and about 7 miles (11 km) south of the larger stream's confluence with the Owyhee River. [6]
The community is on U.S. Highway 95, 73 miles (117 km) north of Winnemucca.The elevation of McDermitt is 4,432 feet (1,351 m) above sea level. [2]McDermitt is in the Oregon High Desert with a desert climate (Köppen climate classification BSk), averaging 9.2 inches (230 mm) of rain annually with hot, dry summers and cold winters.
Oregon Route 140 (OR 140) is a state highway in southern Oregon, United States. It is the longest state highway in Oregon, running 237 miles (381 km) from the community of White City, Oregon (just north of Medford), through Klamath Falls and on to Lakeview. It then continues east, eventually descending into the state of Nevada. [1] [2]
The high desert of Oregon is located in the central and southeastern parts of the state. It covers approximately 24,000 square miles (62,000 km 2), extending approximately 200 miles (320 km) from central Oregon east to the Idaho border and 130 mi (210 km) from central Oregon south to the Nevada border. [1]
The McDermitt Caldera is a large, oval-shaped caldera west of McDermitt in southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada in the United States. It is about 28 miles (45 km) long north–south and 22 miles (35 km) wide east–west. [3] The western part of the caldera is in the Trout Creek Mountains, and the northern part is in the Oregon Canyon Mountains.
There are 16 counties and one independent city in the U.S. state of Nevada. On November 25, 1861, the first Nevada Territorial Legislature established nine counties. [1] Nevada was admitted to the Union on October 31, 1864, with 11 counties. [1] In 1969, Ormsby County and Carson City were consolidated into a single municipal government known as ...
Hawthorne Army Depot surrounds the small town of Hawthorne, Nevada, where most of its employees reside.Before the facility became contractor-operated, it was staffed primarily by United States federal civil service workers and military personnel who were housed on government-owned property neighboring Hawthorne, including the now-abandoned town of Babbitt and military housing known as Schweer ...