Ogle Creek
| Ogle Creek | |
| Name origin: Bob Ogle, a prospector from Molalla [1] | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Oregon |
| County | Marion, Clackamas |
| Source | Cascade Range |
| - location | near Ogle Mountain |
| - elevation | 3,081 ft (939 m) [2] |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [3] |
| Mouth | Molalla River |
| - location | river mile 46 (km 74) on the Molalla, Clackamas County |
| - elevation | 1,847 ft (563 m) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [3] |
  Location of Ogle Creek mouth in Oregon
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Ogle Creek is a headwaters tributary, about 2 miles (3 km) long, of the Molalla River in the northwestern part of Oregon in the United States. From its source in the Cascade Range, it flows north from far-northern Marion County into Clackamas County near Ogle Mountain. From there it continues north into the river about 46 miles (74 km) above its confluence with the Willamette River.[4]
Ogle Creek was named for Bob Ogle,[1] a Molalla prospector who found gold along the creek in 1862. An Oregon City Mining Company employee had found placer gold along the upper Molalla in 1860. Over the next 40 years, many others filed mining claims in the Molalla watershed. The biggest claimant, the Ogle Mountain Mining Company, operated the Ogle Mountain Mine between 1903 and 1915. Limited mining continued here until 1953, when Weyerhaeuser bought the land for timber.[5]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Derived from Google Earth search using Geographic Names Information Service (GNIS) source coordinates.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The map includes mile markers along most of the Molalla River.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
