Crowley, Polk County, Oregon

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Crowley is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is located east of Oregon Route 99W, about four miles north of Rickreall. [2]

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Crowley was a station on the Southern Pacific Railroad between Derry and McCoy, established in 1892 as "Crowleys" and named for Solomon Kimsey Crowley. [2] [3] Crowley, who was born in Missouri in 1833, came west in 1852 and settled in the Oak Grove area of Polk County in 1855. [3] [4] [5] The "s" was dropped from the name of the station in 1898. [3] The rail line is now owned by the Portland and Western Railroad, but Crowley is no longer a station. [6] The Crowley post office operated intermittently from 1881 to 1904. [3] There was later a Crowley post office established in Malheur County. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Crowley". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. ISBN   0-89933-347-8.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 256. ISBN   978-0875952772.
  4. ↑ "Solomon K. Crowley". The History of the Willamette Valley, Being a Description of the Valley and its Resources, with an Account of its Discovery and Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers. Portland, Oregon: Geo. H. Himes, Book and Job Printer. 1885. p. 758. Archived from the original on December 23, 2015. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
  5. ↑ Flora, Stephenie. "Emigrants of 1855" . Retrieved March 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Freight Tariff PNWR 9500" (PDF). Portland & Western Railroad, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2012.

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44°58′37″N123°12′29″W / 44.977°N 123.208°W / 44.977; -123.208


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