The Dalles, Oregon This article is about the town/city in Oregon.
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The Dalles The Dalles and the Columbia River in November 2008 The Dalles and the Columbia River in November 2008 Flag of The Dalles Flag Official seal of The Dalles Website City of The Dalles The Dalles / d lz/ is the governmental center of county and biggest city of Wasco County, Oregon, United States.
The populace was 13,620 at the 2010 census, and is the biggest city on the Oregon side along the Columbia River outside of the Portland Metropolitan area.
The site of what is now the town/city of The Dalles was a primary Indian trading center for at least 10,000 years.
The name of the town/city comes from the French word dalle (meaning either "sluice" (akin to English "dale" and German Tal, "valley") or "flagstone" and referring to the columnar basalt rocks carved by the river, in voyageur French used to refer to rapids), which was used by the French-Canadian employees of the North West Company to refer to the rapids of the Columbia River between the present-day town/city and Celilo Falls.
Also in the same region was the Petite Dalles or Little Dalles, or Short Narrows.
The first use of the name Dalles, as stated to Oregon Geographic Names, appears in fur trader Gabriel Franchere's Narrative, on April 12, 1814, referring to the long series of primary rapids in the river. Starting in the 1810s, Americans and Europeans passed by what became The Dalles, active in the North American fur trade as employees of either the American Pacific Fur Company (PFC) or the Canadian North West Company (NWC).
Early illustration of The Dalles, attributed to Joseph Drayton The rapids of the Columbia River at The Dalles was the biggest and longest of the four "great portages", where fur trading boats had to unload and transship their cargoes.
The Dalles in the 1880s Army established a small post at the site of the old mission, being eventually titled Fort Dalles.
Fort Dalles became the nucleus of the town of The Dalles, which began to precarious along the waterfront. In 1855, at the end of the Cayuse War, the Indians living near The Dalles were forceably relocated by the U.S.
In the early 1840s American pioneer began to arrive in momentous numbers, traveling overland via the Oregon Trail.
The trail ended at The Dalles.
It was not possible to take wagons farther west due to steep cliffs that fell straight into the Columbia River.
A postal service was established inside the boundaries of the current town/city in 1851, and The Dalles was incorporated as a town/city in 1857.
Mint in The Dalles that was to use gold from Canyon City for coinage.
The supply of gold from Canyon City began to dwindle, however, and other problems, such as cost over-runs, workers leaving to work the gold fields, and flooding from the Columbia River, also contributed to the universal running two years behind schedule and led eventually to its demise.
In 1870, the State of Oregon received the property from the U.S.
The Dalles City Hall In 1924, Bobbie the Wonder Dog stopped briefly in The Dalles while on his 2,600 mile (4,200 km) journey home by foot from Indiana to Silverton, Oregon.
Construction of The Dalles Dam in 1957 submerged the Long Narrows and Celilo Falls.
In 1982 a curly-coated kitten was born on a farm in The Dalles owned by Linda and Dick Koehl.
In 1984 The Dalles was the site of the first and single biggest bioterrorism attack in United States history.
The Dalles and the Columbia River showing encircling landscape According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.61 square miles (17.12 km2), of which, 6.35 square miles (16.45 km2) is territory and 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2) is water. The Dalles is usually classified as a cool semiarid (Koppen BSk) climate region.
The city's locale in the easterly Columbia Gorge results in there being various microclimates inside a several miles of town.
Prior to the sudden onset of the rainy season in mid- to late fall, there are often days with a very wide disparity between daytime and eveningtime temperatures, sometimes exceeding 20 C / 36 F.
Winter is the wet season in The Dalles.
The region receives calculated snow flurry virtually every year, but the snow totals fluctuate dramatically from one year to the next; some seasons see only one or two brief light snow affairs while the rest get primary snowstorms and cumulative totals of 50 cm (20 in.) or more.
Average winter temperatures are only about 2 3 C (3 5 F) degrees colder than in metros/cities such as Portland and Seattle, and temperatures below 20 C ( 4 F) are very rare, but not unheard of.
As in the summer, winter temperatures can vary tremendously from one day to the next: amid arctic air affairs the daytime high temperatures will generally be well below 0 - C / 32 - F, while a strong subtropical push can raise temperatures into the 50s and low 60s F, even in January.
Climate data for The Dalles Muni Airport (1981-2010) (extremes 1948 present) In 2006, the Internet business Google began building a primary data center, known locally as Project 02, along the Columbia River in The Dalles, using the area's reliable hydroelectric power and the underutilized fiber optic capacity of the area.
As of 2012, the top 15 employers in The Dalles as stated to the Mid-Columbia Economic Development District report on "Largest Employers in Wasco County" are: 4 State of Oregon 243 12 City of The Dalles 100 The Dalles is home to the chief campus of Columbia Gorge Community College which began in 1977 as Wasco Area Education Service District.
As of the census of 2010, there were 13,620 citizens , 5,472 homeholds, and 3,441 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 87.9% White, 0.5% African American, 1.5% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 0.8% Pacific Islander, 5.7% from other competitions, and 2.7% from two or more competitions.
There were 5,472 homeholds of which 30.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 46.1% were married couples living together, 12.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 37.1% were non-families.
31.0% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The median age in the town/city was 39.7 years.
23.8% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.1% were from 25 to 44; 25.8% were from 45 to 64; and 17.9% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 12,156 citizens , 4,896 homeholds, and 3,226 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 87.83% White, 0.39% African American, 1.20% Native American, 0.96% Asian, 0.77% Pacific Islander, 6.23% from other competitions, and 2.62% from two or more competitions.
There were 4,896 homeholds out of which 30.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.1% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.1% were non-families.
29.2% of all homeholds were made up of individuals, and 13.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace was spread out, with 24.8% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $35,430, and the median income for a family was $43,041.
About 9.0% of families and 12.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 16.6% of those under age 18 and 8.6% of those age 65 or over.
Former Carnegie library, presently The Dalles Art Center The Northwest Cherry Festival is held in The Dalles in April. The Discovery Center, the official interpretive center for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Fort Dalles Museum, Oregon's earliest history exhibition positioned in the Surgeon's Quarters assembled in 1856 at Fort Dalles In 1984, The Dalles was the scene of a bioterrorist incident launched by members of the Rajneesh Movement in an attempt to gain control of the small-town government of Wasco County.
John Callahan, cartoonist, interval up in The Dalles Philip Whalen, a poet associated with the Beat Generation, interval up in The Dalles Wilma Roberts, small-town photographer who lived and worked at the Elite Studio, later called "Mel O's" in The Dalles The Dalles has one sister city: "City of The Dalles".
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Fort Dalles Museum and the Anderson Homestead.
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In the midst of these hunting grounds, near The Dalles, Oregon and under the watchful eye of Tsagaglalal, the La - Perm came into existence in the spring of 1982.
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The Dalles Google Data Centers.
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Authorized by the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act (PL99-663) Fort Dalles Museum.
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Tukwila Sister City Affiliation.
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Municipalities and communities of Wasco County, Oregon, United States State of Oregon
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