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McMinnville is the county seat of and most populous city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States at the base of the Oregon Coast Range. The city is named after McMinnville, Tennessee . As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 34,319.
The tunnel was driven by the Portland and Southwestern Railroad, whose chief business was logging. Unusually for a logging railroad, the Portland and Southwestern built tunnels. In order to reach the far side of the Nehalem divide in the Northern Oregon Coast Range, the railroad undertook a 1,712-foot (522 m) tunnel. Some work was started in ...
The revival of a ghost town has unearthed the history of Black loggers who worked in Oregon when it was illegal for them to even live in the state. 100 years later, revival of ghost town tells ...
It operated until around 1922 when it was acquired by Big Creek Logging Company a subsidiary of Crossett-Western Lumber Co, which then formed the Gales Creek Logging Company. [6] Operations started here on March 1, 1923. [6] They employed about 200 men and the expected output was around 250,000 board ft. daily.
Okta (stylized as ōkta) was a Pacific Northwest restaurant in McMinnville, Oregon. [1] [2] Established in July 2022, the fine dining restaurant was included in The New York Times 's 2023 list of the 50 best restaurants in the United States. Okta closed permanently in September 2024.
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 86 of those are found in Yamhill County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 24, 2025.
By 1960, the town only had a log dump and a security guard. [3] The railroad was abandoned in 1960, and logs were hauled to the mills using trucks; at some point the railroad tracks were removed. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Although the USGS classifies Black Rock as a populated place , today there is nothing at the former townsite, which is entirely forested ...
One highly publicized instance of salvage logging followed the Biscuit Fire in Oregon and California in 2002. After the fire, the United States Forest Service salvaged timber burned by the fire. The process was expedited when President George W. Bush signed the Healthy Forests Restoration Act allowing salvage logging to occur more quickly and ...