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Former community in Oregon, United States
Blalock, Oregon
Former community
Blalock is located in OregonBlalockBlalockLocation within the state of OregonShow map of OregonBlalock is located in the United StatesBlalockBlalockBlalock (the United States)Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 45°41′39″N 120°22′24″W / 45.69417°N 120.37333°W / 45.69417; -120.37333
CountryUnited States
StateOregon
CountyGilliam
Population
 • Total0
Time zoneUTC-8 (Pacific)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (Pacific)
GNIS feature ID1164926

Blalock was an unincorporated community located in the Columbia River Gorge in Gilliam County, Oregon, United States. The town displaced a Native American settlement originally named Táwash. Blalock was located about 7 miles (11 km) west of Arlington on Interstate 84/U.S. Route 30 at the mouth of Blalock Canyon. Blalock is still the name of a station on the Union Pacific Railroad (originally the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, or OR&N).

History

The community was named for the farm of Dr. Nelson G. Blalock, a Civil War veteran who had pioneered in the Walla Walla area. He established an agricultural operation of several thousand acres on the flat land here along the Columbia River. The area was first settled in 1879, and Blalock post office was established in 1881. The town was platted in 1881 by the Blalock Wheat Growing Company. The first two buildings, a railroad station and a warehouse, were built by A. J. McLellan, OR&N superintendent of the construction of bridges and buildings. By 1884, the community was shipping wheat and there were daily stagecoaches to Heppner; the population was 50. People and businesses listed in the Polk Directory at that time included two clergymen, a saloon, a wagonmaker, a ferryman, a hotel, a general store, a lawyer, and a dealer in lumber, coal, and feed. In 1904, the town handled about 750,000 bushels of wheat. By 1905, the town had two grain warehouses, a hotel, a general store, a livery and stage stable, a real estate office and an agricultural implement factory. In 1940, Blalock had a population of 19. The post office closed in 1959. In 1968, the community was inundated by the backwaters from the John Day Dam.

See also

References

  1. "Blalock Post Office (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 1, 1994. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  2. "Blalock". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. May 22, 1986. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  3. Hunn, Eugene S. (Winter 2007). "Sk'in – The Other Side of the River" (PDF). Oregon Historical Quarterly. 108 (4). Oregon Historical Society: 618. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  4. Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 72. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
  5. ^ McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) . Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. pp. 88–89. ISBN 978-0875952772.
  6. ^ Oregon, Washington and Idaho Gazetteer and Business Directory, Volume 1. R. L. Polk & Co. 1884. p. 324.
  7. ^ An Illustrated History of Central Oregon: Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake and Klamath Counties. Western Historical Publishing Company. 1905. p. 573.
  8. Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon (1940). Oregon: End of the Trail. American Guide Series. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort. p. 265. OCLC 4874569.

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Municipalities and communities of Gilliam County, Oregon, United States
County seat: Condon
Cities
Gilliam County map
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communities
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Indian reservation
Footnotes‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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