La Grande, Oregon "La Grande"
La Grande, Oregon Clockwise: Aerial view of the city; the Foley Building; the Granada theater; Carnegie Library; Catherine Creek; Eastern Oregon University Pierce Library.
Clockwise: Aerial view of the city; the Foley Building; the Granada theater; Carnegie Library; Catherine Creek; Eastern Oregon University Pierce Library.
Flag of La Grande, Oregon Flag Official seal of La Grande, Oregon State Oregon Website La Grande, O La Grande /l r nd/ is a town/city in Union County, Oregon, United States.
Originally titled "Brownsville", it was forced to change its name because that name was being used for a town/city in Linn County.
Its name comes from an early French settler, Charles Dause, who often used the phrase "La Grande" to describe the area's beauty.
The populace was 13,082 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Union County. La Grande lies east of the Blue Mountains and southeast of Pendleton.
The Grande Ronde Valley had long been a waypoint along the Oregon Trail.
The first permanent settler in the La Grande region was Benjamin Brown in 1861. Not long after, the Leasey family and about twenty the rest settled there.
There was already a Brownsville in Linn County, so when the postal service was established in 1863, a more distinct ive name was needed. It was decided to use "La Grande", a phrase used by a Frenchman, Charles Dause, to describe the area's scenic splendor. Before the postal service was established, William Currey charged 50 cents a letter to carry the mail on horseback to and from the nearest postal service, in Walla Walla, Washington. La Grande was incorporated as a town/city in 1865, and platted in 1868. La Grande interval quickly during the late 1860s and early 1870s, partially because of the region's many gold mines and the valley's agricultural capabilities.
By 1900, La Grande's populace was 2992, representing half of the populace of Baker City. La Grande's Eastern Oregon University, formerly known as Eastern Oregon State College, began in 1929 as Eastern Oregon Normal School, a teachers college. La Grande had a factory for refining sugar beets into raw sugar.
The sugar beets came from the close-by Mormon town of Nibley, Oregon, and both were owned by the Oregon Sugar Company.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.61 square miles (11.94 km2), of which, 4.58 square miles (11.86 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water. The town is a primary hub in the Grande Ronde Valley.
Mount Emily is a Grande Ronde Valley landmark towering over the town/city of La Grande to the north.
La Grande has a climate that could either be described as a humid continental climate (Koppen Dsb) or a rare cold oceanic or mediterranean climate (Koppen Cfb or Csb), with warm, dry summers and cold winters.
Climate data for La Grande, OR As of the census of 2010, there were 13,082 citizens , 5,395 homeholds, and 3,073 families residing in the city.
There were 5,395 homeholds of which 28.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.7% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.0% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 32.8 years.
As of the census of 2000, there were 12,327 citizens , 5,124 homeholds, and 2,982 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 16.5% from 18 to 24, 23.9% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,576, and the median income for a family was $40,508.
About 8.3% of families and 15.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 10.0% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over. See also Wikimedia Commons Photographs from the La Grande Commercial Historic District La Grande includes a historic commercial precinct listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2001.
On the northeast, by Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company/Union Pacific Railroad tracks along Jefferson Avenue; The town/city is served by the La Grande School District, which includes Central Elementary School, Island City Elementary, Greenwood Elementary School, La Grande Middle School, and La Grande High School.
La Grande is the home of Eastern Oregon University.
La Grande is considered part of the Portland tv market despite its distance from the part of the state.
Spanish language Univision partner KUNP (channel 16) is licensed to La Grande as a sister station to Portland ABC partner KATU (channel 2), though is effectively considered to be a Portland station due to its former owner using a strategy of using fringe stations to serve an entire market through cable and satellite distribution with little to no small-town presence (KUNP's parent business maintains a translator station serving Portland proper).
Eastbound exit 261 into La Grande off Interstate 84 I-84.svg Interstate 84 is the chief freeway through La Grande.
It links La Grande with other close-by cities in the region (Pendleton, Baker City), as well as other regionally-important cities, including Boise, Idaho, Ontario and Umatilla, and Spokane and the Tri-Cities region of Washington.
Route 30 serves as La Grande's chief street under the name of Adams Avenue.
OR 82.svg Oregon Route 82 begins in La Grande at its intersection with Adams Avenue.
The La Grande area's portion of OR 82 is Island Avenue, generally known as the Island City Strip because it serves as the chief road in La Grande's northern suburb of Island City.
OR 82 ends in Wallowa County's town of Joseph, Oregon.
OR 237.svg Oregon Route 237 begins in close-by Island City and is the chief route to the close-by town of Cove.
OR 203.svg Oregon Route 203 starts southeast of La Grande, near the intersection of Interstate 84 and U.S.
The Highway travels through Pyles Canyon and is an alternate route to Ladd Canyon, the chief route out of the Grande Ronde Valley to the south.
La Grande is a crew change point on the Huntington and La Grande subdivisions of the Union Pacific Railroad, originally constructed through the region in 1884 by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. Between 1977 and 1997, the town/city was a regular stop along the former route of Amtrak's Pioneer between Chicago, Salt Lake City, Portland and Seattle. La Grande is also the junction of the Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad's 20-mile (32 km) short line to Elgin. La Grande/Union County Airport Darrell Ourso, Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Baton Rouge; formerly resided in La Grande "First Settlement in Grande Ronde Valley, Union County, Oregon".
Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.).
Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press.
"La Grande History, Union County, Oregon".
Main Street: Northeastern Oregon.
Oregon Historical Society.
Main Street: Northeastern Oregon.
Oregon Historical Society.
Oregon Historical Society.
"LA GRANDE, OR (354622)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Subcounty populace estimates: Oregon 2000-2007". Population Division.
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
"Standards and Guidelines Manual for Historic Rehabilitation and Preservation for La Grande, Oregon" (PDF).
City of La Grande.
"A 1940 Journey Across Oregon: Baker to La Grande".
Oregon Secretary of State.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Grande, Oregon.
City of La Grande (official website) La Grande listing in the Oregon Blue Book "La Grande".
Municipalities and communities of Union County, Oregon, United States State of Oregon
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