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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.38 square miles (0.98 km 2), all land. [13] Scio lies at en elevation of 317 feet above sea level. [9] It is located in the Albany–Corvallis–Lebanon combined statistical area, though its area code is 503 & 971, unlike most of the rest of Linn County.
The earliest newspaper in Oregon was the Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City from 1846, by a press association headed by George Abernethy. [4] This was joined in November 1850 by the Milwaukie Western Star and two partisan papers – the Whig Oregonian, published in Portland beginning on December 4, 1850, and the Democratic Statesman ...
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 76 of those are found partially or wholly in Linn County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
Heartbreaking images show how a picturesque North Carolina mountain village was all but wiped off the map by Hurricane Helene — with one local mourning, “What was once a town is now a river.”
Helen Smith's wealthy parents, Carl Christian and Ester Jensen, immigrated to the United States from Denmark and Sweden. Helen Jensen Smith was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she and Peter Franklin Smith were married in 1937. Connie and her older brother, Wyoming state politician Nels J. Smith, were baptized in the Wyoming Governor's ...
Buncombe County officials announced Sept. 26 that residents in Biltmore Village in Asheville should evacuate ahead of Helene making landfall. Now, the area is experiencing historic flooding thanks ...
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
Shimanek Bridge near Scio carries Richardson Gap Road. Shimanek Bridge, upstream of Scio at about RM 12, is a 130-foot (40 m) Howe truss structure built in 1966. It is the newest and longest covered bridge in Linn County. At least four other covered bridges crossed Thomas Creek at this same spot, the first documented one in 1891.