Santiam Junction, Oregon

Santiam Junction is a highway junction and unincorporated localecite web |url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1126597 |title=Feature Query Results |publisher= United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2008-03-18] cite web |url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/features.html#l |title=Feature Class Types |publisher= Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2008-03-17] in Linn County, Oregon, United States, at the intersection of U.S. Route 20/Oregon Route 126 and Oregon Route 22.

According to the Oregon Department of Transportation, the elevation is 3,750 feet (1,143 m).cite web
url=http://www.oregon.gov/Aviation/warning.shtml#Santiam_Junction
title=Santiam Junction
work=Department of Aviation State Warning Airports
publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation
accessdate=2008-03-17]

An automated weather station is located here, as well as highway maintenance facilities. The Santiam Junction State Airport is an emergency/recreational landing strip that is closed from the first snowfall until spring. The airport grounds permit fly-in camping.

The Santiam Junction vicinity is listed by the National Register of Historic Places as the site of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Linear Historic District, which consists of roughly 20 miles of the old railroad grade between Idanha and the line's Cascade Range summit. [cite web
url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OR/Marion/districts.html
title=Oregon Pacific Railroad Linear Historic District
work=OREGON - Marion County - Historic Districts
publisher=nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com
accessdate=2008-03-17] citeweb |title=National Register Information System |url= http://www.nr.nps.gov/ |publisher=National Park Service |accessdate=2008-03-17]

Geologically, much of the area is a lava bed created during a period of volcanic activity around 1000 B.C. [cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=o5XxO3E8ap4C
title=In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History
author=Ellen Morris Bishop
year=2003
publisher=Timber Press
isbn=088192590X]

ee also

* Hogg Rock
* Santiam Pass
* Hoodoo (ski area)

References

External links

* [http://ocs.orst.edu/page_links/climate_data_zones/station_climate/zone_4/Santiam_Junction/index.htm Weather station info]