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Oregon Hill is a historic working-class neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. Oregon Hill overlooks the James River and Belle Isle , and provides access to Hollywood Cemetery . Due to the neighborhood's proximity to the Monroe Park Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University , the neighborhood is sometimes referred to as a student quarter because ...
Greenville (formerly, Oregon Hill) is a former settlement in Yuba County, California, United States. It was located on Little Oregon Creek 4.25 miles (6.8 km) southeast of Challenge, [2] at an elevation of 2182 feet (665 m). A post office operated at Greenville from 1857 to 1860. [2]
Oregon City is governed by a Mayor and a City Commission composed of the Mayor and four Commissioners elected from the City at large for terms of four years each. [20] Oregon City was the capital of the Oregon Territory until 1851; the following governors served during that time: George Abernethy, provisional governor of the Oregon Country 1845 ...
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first table below ranks the 30 highest major summits of Oregon by elevation.
The city's name comes from a nearby hill that was the location of a 19th-century gold discovery, on "Big Bar” on the Rogue River in the early 1850s. In 1852, Colonel William T'Vault and family made a claim, naming it Dardanelles, on the south side of the Rogue. [6]
Map of the United States with Oregon highlighted Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, it is the 27th-most populous state, with 4,237,256 inhabitants, and ranked 10th by land area, spanning 95,988 square miles (248,610 km 2) of land. Oregon is divided into 36 counties and contains 241 incorporated cities. Approximately 71 percent of ...
The Oregon Vortex is a roadside attraction that opened to tourists in 1930, [1] located on Sardine Creek [2] in Gold Hill, Oregon, in the United States.It consists of a number of interesting effects, which are gravity hill optical illusions, but which the attraction's proprietors propose are the result of paranormal properties of the area.
Oregon Hill is an unincorporated community in Rockingham County, North Carolina, United States. [1] References. a b c External links. This page was last edited ...