Lakeview, Oregon Lakeview, Oregon Location in Lake County and Oregon Location in Lake County and Oregon State Oregon Lakeview is a town in Lake County, Oregon, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Lake County.
The town/city bills itself as the "Tallest Town in Oregon" because of its elevation.
Lakeview is situated in the Goose Lake Valley at the foot of the Warner Mountains and at the edge of Oregon's high desert country.
Oregon's Outback Scenic Byway passes through Lakeview.
Native Americans may have occupied the region around Lakeview for as much as 14,000 years, as evidenced by artifacts found in the Paisley Caves north of Lakeview. When the first white explorers came through the Goose Lake Valley, Shoshone speaking citizens were living in the area. The hot springs are approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north the Lakeview town site. In 1867 and 1868, General George Crook led United States Army units and Indian scouts from the Wasco and Warm Springs tribes in a prosperous campaign against Northern Paiute bands in Eastern Oregon and northern California.
This is the locale that eventually became the town of Lakeview.
Lake County was separated from Jackson County and Wasco County in 1874.
Bullard offered to donate 20 acres (8.1 ha) along Bullard Creek in the Goose Lake Valley as a site for the county courthouse.
Prior to that election, the town of Lakeview was organized at a meeting of Goose Lake Valley residents.
In the second election, the new town site of Lakeview was select to replace Linkville as Lake County's seat of government.
Moon, who filed a town plat with the state of Oregon, officially creating the town of Lakeview.
Later that year, the name was changed to Fremont National Forest Reserve to honor Captain John C.
In 1908, the Fremont National Forest was created, administered by the United States Forest Service.
In 1909, the Oregon Valley Land Company conducted a seven-day auction to dispose of territory grants acquired from the assembly of the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road in 1865 and 1869.
Lake County used part of its income from the sale to finance a new county courthouse.
Heryford commissioned the assembly of a three-story commercial building in downtown Lakeview, athwart the street from the Lake County courthouse.
That year, only 39,000,000 board feet of timber was cut on the Fremont National Forest.
In 1996, Lake County took over the barns operation, and retitled it the Lake County Railroad.
Lakeview is in the Goose Lake Valley at the foot of the Warner Mountains to the east.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.34 square miles (6.06 km2), of which, 2.33 square miles (6.03 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Climate data for Lakeview 2 NNW, Oregon (1971-2000; extremes since 1888) Lake County courthouse in Lakeview, 2008 Lakeview is the governmental center of county of Lake County. A momentous number of citizens in Lakeview are also working by federal and state government agencies.
In addition to government employment, Lakeview has a several schools, a hospital, a sawmill, a perlite mine, and a wide range of agriculture enterprises. According to the 2012 American Community Survey conducted by the United States Enumeration Bureau, the biggest areas of employment in Lakeview are community care (18%), enhance service (17%), agriculture and forestry (10%), manufacturing (9%), retail (9%), technical professions (7%), and transit (6%). The Fremont National Forest was administratively combined with Winema National Forest in 2002.
Lakeview was chose as the locale for the combined Fremont Winema National Forest headquarters.
Lakeview is also the home of the Lakeview Ranger District, an administrative subdivision of the Fremont Winema National Forest. The Bureau of Land Management's Lakeview District is co-located with the nationwide forest headquarters. The Lakeview Interagency Fire Center is positioned in Lakeview.
The center coordinated wildfire suppression activities between the small-town agencies including the United States Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and the Oregon Department of Forestry. The close-by Warner Creek Correctional Facility opened in 2005. The prison, one of a several assembled in Oregon to home an expanding inmate population, was opposed by many Lake County voters. The minimum-security prison, 4 miles (6 km) northwest of the city, employs a staff of 100 and holds about 400 inmates. Lakeview markets itself as the "Tallest Town in Oregon" because of its 4,800-foot (1,500 m) elevation.
Since 1999, Lake County and the City of Lakeview has offered tax incentives to encourage renewable energy companies to locate in the area.
In the summer, the Fremont Winema National Forest's Lakeview District provided a number of outside recreation opportunities in the region around Lakeview.
The nationwide forest has a number of lakes and streams available for sport fishing.
The ski hill is positioned in the Fremont Winema National Forest 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Lakeview on Oregon Route 140.
The nationwide championships for hang gliding were held in Lakeview in 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2008, while the nationwide championships for paragliding were held in Lakeview in 1998 and 2007. And for at least the past twenty years, Lakeview has hosted the "Umpteenth Annual Festival of Free Flight" over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, sponsored by the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, and various small-town businesses.
However, the town/city and the Oregon Department of Corrections deny any cause-and-effect relationship between geothermal evolution and the geyser's periodic dormancy.
Nevada California Oregon Railway Passenger Station (National Register of Historic Places) Lake County Round Sale Barn (National Register of Historic Places) Lakeview High School, the only high school in the city, is part of Lakeview School District #7; serving students in grades 9 through 12.
Many students from high schools in Lake County have attended college on scholarships provided in trust by pioneer physician Bernard Daly.
He was associated with an act of frontier heroism that occurred when a fire broke out amid a Christmas program at the isolated Oregon town of Silver Lake in December 1894.
Oregon's Outback Scenic Byway passes through Lakeview along Highway 395.
By road, the nearest incorporated metros/cities are Klamath Falls, Oregon, 96 miles (154 km) west of Lakeview; Bend, Oregon, 175 miles (282 km) to the northwest; Burns, Oregon, 139 miles (224 km) to the northeast; Winnemucca, Nevada, 211 miles (340 km) to the east; and Alturas, California, 54 miles (87 km) south of Lakeview. The Lake Railroad (formerly the Lake County Railroad) is a spur line from Lakeview to Alturas, California.
The Lake County Airport is 3 miles (5 km) southwest of the Lakeview's downtown area.
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