Crowley, Polk County, Oregon

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]

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. Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
  3. 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. Retrieved March 4, 2012.

Further reading

44.978451°N 123.208157°W / 44.978451; -123.208157


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.