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St. Helens is the county seat of Columbia County, Oregon.It was founded by Captain Henry Montgomery Knighton, a native of New England, in 1845, as "Plymouth".The name was changed to St. Helens in the latter part of 1850 for its view of Mount St. Helens, roughly 39 miles (63 km) away in Washington.
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Mount St. Helens from Monitor Ridge, this image shows the cone of devastation, the huge crater open to the north, the posteruption lava dome inside, and Crater Glacier surrounding the lava dome. The small photo on the left was taken from Spirit Lake before the eruption and the small photo on the right was taken after the eruption from roughly ...
Plumes of steam, gas, and ash often occur at Mount St. Helens. On clear days they can be seen from Portland, Oregon, 50 miles (81 kilometers) to the south. The plume photographed here rose nearly 3000 feet (1000 meters) above the volcano's rim. The view is from Harrys Ridge, five miles (8 kilometers) north of the mountain.
The St. Helens Chronicle, which grew out of a series of mergers of the Chronicle, the Sentinel, and the Mist founded in 1881. [13] The Chief and Chronicle merged in December 2023 to form The Columbia County Chronicle & Chief, which served as a newspaper of record for the county. [14] The paper published its final edition on September 25, 2024.
Jim Erickson covered the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens for The News Tribune and published a book chronicling the 40th anniversary in 2020, offered by The History Press. Show comments Advertisement
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 13 of those are found partially or wholly in Columbia County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
Mount Hood, the nearest major volcanic peak in Oregon, is 60 miles (100 km) southeast of Mount St. Helens. Mount St. Helens is geologically young compared with the other major Cascade volcanoes. It formed only within the past 40,000 years, and the summit cone present before its 1980 eruption began rising about 2,200 years ago. [ 11 ]