Olene, Oregon

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Olene, Oregon
Unincorporated community
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Olene
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Olene
Olene (the United States)
Coordinates: 42°10′19″N121°37′51″W / 42.17194°N 121.63083°W / 42.17194; -121.63083
Country United States
State Oregon
County Klamath
Elevation
4,153 ft (1,266 m)
Time zone UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT)
GNIS feature ID1124978 [1]
Coordinates and elevation from Geographic Names Information System [1]

Olene is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Klamath Falls on Oregon Route 140. [2] Olene currently has a general store and at one time it had a school. [3] [4] [5] In 1940 Olene had a population of 62 and was considered a suburb of Klamath Falls. [6] Olene was the center of a prosperous dairy and potato farming district. [6]

According to William Gladstone Steel, Olene is a Klamath word meaning "eddy place" or "place of drift." O. C. Applegate adopted the word for the site in 1884 when the post office was established. [7] The original Olene post office was up the Lost River from the current townsite. [7] When the post office closed in 1966, it was near The Gap, a restriction in the Lost River. [7] [8] This gap is also known as Olene Gap, and the Olene Hot Springs are nearby. [9] [10]

The community was along a rail line operated jointly by Southern Pacific and Burlington Northern. Today the OC&E Woods Line State Trail, a rails to trails conversion, passes through Olene. [11] Originally built by the Oregon, California and Eastern Railway, the railroad line reached Olene in 1918. [9]

A geothermal drilling project near Olene was completed in early 2013, and the temperature produced by that well was in excess of 280 °F (138 °C). [12] Plans include drilling two or three more wells for a commercial-scale power plant, with a planned electrical capacity of 21 MWe. [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Olene". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 70. ISBN   0-89933-347-8.
  3. ↑ "Parking and Access". Klamath Rails-to-Trail Group. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Itineraries". Klamath Visitor & Convention Bureau. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  5. ↑ Tonsfeldt, Ward (August 1990). "Historical Resource Survey: Klamath County, Oregon" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department . Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  6. 1 2 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.  440. OCLC   4874569.
  7. 1 2 3 McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 720. ISBN   978-0875952772.
  8. ↑ "The Gap". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  9. 1 2 "OC&E Woods Line State Trail". Explore!. December 5, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Olene Hot Springs". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. May 22, 1986. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  11. ↑ "OC&E Woods Line State Trail". Klamath Rails-to-Trail Group. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  12. 1 2 "Second Geothermal Well in the Works in Olene Area". Global Geothermal News. Retrieved October 14, 2013.


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