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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.
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.
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.
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 Cove Palisades State Park is a state park in eastern Jefferson County, Oregon, near Culver and Madras in the central part of the state, and is administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. It is located on the waters and surrounding lands of Lake Billy Chinook, an impoundment of the Crooked, Deschutes, and Metolius rivers.
People from Madras, Oregon (9 P) Pages in category "Madras, Oregon" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, Oregon (7 P) This page was last edited on 4 August 2013, at 20:29 (UTC). Text is ...
Transportation buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Oregon (1 C, 4 P) ... Madras This page was last edited on 11 February 2011, at 18:27 (UTC). ...