- Cold Springs, Oregon
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Cold Springs is an unincorporated community in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States, south of the Columbia River in the Hermiston area. Cold Springs Junction is a populated place and highway junction about four miles northeast of Cold Springs at the junction of Oregon Route 37 and U.S. Route 730.[1]
The present-day Cold Springs was a station of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company,[2] which is the Union Pacific Railroad today.[3] Its elevation is 574 feet (175 m).[4]
One of several geographic features in the area—including Cold Springs Wash, Cold Springs Reservoir and Cold Springs Canyon—that were likely named after a local spring, Cold Springs post office was established in 1880 and ran until 1883.[3] It was in the Middle Fork Cold Springs Canyon west of Myrick and east of the reservoir about 28 miles northeast of Cold Springs station.[5] The reservoir was formed in the early 1900s when the wash was dammed to provide storage for water diverted from the Umatilla River for irrigation.[3]
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References
- ^ "Cold Springs Junction". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1119123. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
- ^ Avers, Henry G. (1926). "First-Level Ordering in Oregon". United States Department of Commerce: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cgs_specpubs/QB275U35no1221926.pdf. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
- ^ a b c McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
- ^ "Cold Springs". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1158171. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
- ^ "Cold Springs Post Office (historical)". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. August 1, 1994. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1164278. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
Municipalities and communities of Umatilla County, Oregon County seat: Pendleton Cities 
CDPs Cayuse | Gopher Flats | Kirkpatrick | Mission | Riverside | Tutuilla
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communitiesIndian reservation Ghost towns Coordinates: 45°52′42″N 119°09′56″W / 45.8784658°N 119.1655662°W
Categories:- Unincorporated communities in Umatilla County, Oregon
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