| 词条 | Valsetz, Oregon |
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Valsetz was an unincorporated community and timber company town in Polk County, Oregon, United States, west of Falls City in the Central Oregon Coast Range.[1] It no longer exists. HistoryOregon Geographic Names says that the William W. Mitchell Company started the town in 1919 and named it as a portmanteau of Valley and Siletz Railroad, whose terminus was at that location.[2] Company town researcher Linda Carlson says the town was founded by the Cobbs & Mitchell company of Cadillac, Michigan during World War I.[3][4] Valsetz post office was established in 1920.[2]In 1947, Cobbs & Mitchell sold the town to its sales agent, Herbert Templeton.[3] He operated it as the Valsetz Lumber Company until 1959, when its sawmill and timber stands were sold to the Boise Cascade Corporation.[2][3] After the depletion of the old growth timber in the area in the 1970s, the railroad was torn up.[2] In 1983, Boise Cascade announced that all operations at Valsetz would end early the next year.[2] At that time, the town's population was about 300.[5] In 1984, the town and most of its structures were removed, as everything in the community, property and streets included, was owned by the corporation. The post office closed the same year.[2] The site became part of the Valsetz Tree Farm.[1][2] Valsetz Lake, an artificial lake next to the townsite that was formed by damming the South Fork Siletz River, was drained in 1988.[4][6] LegacyFormer residents of Valsetz gather for an annual reunion in Falls City, which is the site of a Valsetz memorial.[7] The place was nationally known for its record rainfalls and for its newspaper, the Valsetz Star, which was started in the 1930s by 9-year-old Dorothy Anne Hobson.[3] At one time the population of Valsetz was over one thousand, and served by its own elementary and high school, which fielded championship basketball teams.[3] Near the site of the former community is the "Valley of the Giants", {{convert|51|acre|m2}} of Bureau of Land Management-protected old growth Douglas-fir and Western Hemlock forest on the North Fork of the Siletz River. The valley was set aside for protection in 1976.[8] The Valsetz Dining Hall at Western Oregon University (WOU) in Monmouth, east of Valsetz, was built in 1970 and rededicated in 1991 in tribute to the former community.[9] Between 1926 and 1931, WOU, then known as the Oregon Normal School, sent 16 to 20 student teachers for six-week sessions in the Valsetz elementary school.[9] ClimateThis region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F.2. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Valsetz has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.[10] {{climate chart|Valsetz, OregonApril 26, 1926 to December 10, 1986 |31.4 |45.3 |20.70 |33.6 |49.8 |16.68 |33.9 |52.5 |14.91 |35.8 |57.9 |8.58 |39.6 |65.3 |4.72 |44.5 |71.4 |3.17 |46.6 |77.6 |1.08 |47.5 |77.5 |1.83 |44.4 |72.9 |4.53 |40.0 |63.5 |10.33 |35.9 |52.4 |19.17 |33.6 |46.7 |22.31 |float=right |clear=both |units=imperial |source=DRI }} See also
References1. ^1 {{cite gnis |id= 1158530 |name= Valsetz (historical) |entrydate= November 28, 1980 |accessdate= January 18, 2010}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite book |last= McArthur |first= Lewis A. |authorlink= Lewis A. McArthur |author2=Lewis L. McArthur |title= Oregon Geographic Names |origyear= 1928 |edition= Seventh |year= 2003 |publisher= Oregon Historical Society Press |location= Portland, Oregon |isbn= 0-87595-277-1 |page= 988}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book |author= Carlson, Linda |title= Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest |year= 2003 |pages= 139, 238 |isbn= 0-295-98332-9 |publisher= University of Washington Press |location= Seattle |url= http://www.lindacarlson.com/historybook.html |access-date= 2009-03-31 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090119112640/http://lindacarlson.com/historybook.html |archive-date= 2009-01-19 |dead-url= yes |df= }} 4. ^1 1988 Polk County Itemizer-Observer article cited in {{cite journal |last=Ferrari |first= Greg |url= http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/geo422/Greg%20Ferrari-%20Valsetz%20Document.pdf |title= Valsetz |date= March 22, 2001 |accessdate= March 25, 2008}} 5. ^{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books |title= In Search of Western Oregon |author= Friedman, Ralph |authorlink= Ralph Friedman |year= 1990 |edition= 2nd |page= 181 |publisher= The Caxton Printers, Ltd |location= Caldwell, Idaho |isbn= 0-87004-332-3}} 6. ^{{cite gnis |id= 1158531 |name= Valsetz Lake (historical) |entrydate= May 22, 1986 |accessdate= January 18, 2010}} 7. ^{{cite news |last= Rouse |first= Jennifer |url= http://www.fallscity.org/valsetz.html |title= Falls City Honors Valsetz: Gone But Not Forgotten |publisher= www.fallscity.org |work= Polk County Itemizer-Observer |accessdate= March 25, 2008}} 8. ^{{cite news |last=Gault |first= Roy |title= Walk among Salem's old-growth trees |publisher= Statesman Journal |date= November 7, 2003 }} 9. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://www.wou.edu/provost/library/archives/university/buildings/html/valsetz.php |title= Building - Valsetz Dining Hall |publisher= Western Oregon University |accessdate= February 11, 2015}} 10. ^Climate Summary for Valsetz, Oregon External links{{div col}}
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