Durkee, Oregon

Durkee, Oregon
Unincorporated community
Café in Durkee in 2008
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Coordinates: 44°34′56″N 117°27′53″W
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Baker
Elevation	2,651 ft (808 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code(s)	458 and 541
GNIS feature ID	1136236[1]

Durkee is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States. It has a post office with the ZIP code of 97905.^[2] Durkee lies at the Vandercar Road exit of Interstate 84.^[3] Durkee is known as the site of Oregon's only cement plant, the Ash Grove Cement Company plant in nearby Nelson. It is one of Baker County's largest private employers;^[4][5] opened in 1979, it succeeded the plant near Lime.

Durkee was originally a stage stop called Express, and by the 1860s it was the only transfer point between Umatilla, Oregon, and Boise, Idaho. It prospered as a water stop and telegraph station for the railroad, and later as a stop on Highway 30, the only paved road in the area. The community was platted in 1908, even though the population had already peaked.^[6]

Education

In 1969 the local school had nine students.^[7]

References

1. "Durkee". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
2. Zip Code Lookup
3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Durkee, Oregon
4. Jacoby, Jayson (March 17, 2014). "U.S. Senator Ron Wyden Visits Baker City". Baker City Herald. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
5. Miller, Jeremy (January 11, 2010). "Mountains of Mercury". High Country News. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
6. Bailey, Barbara Ruth (1982). Main Street: Northeastern Oregon. Oregon Historical Society. p. 51. ISBN 0-87595-073-6.
7. "Desert School Enrolls 2". Statesman Journal. Salem, Oregon. January 1, 1969. p. 5 of Section 1. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.

External links

• Media related to Durkee, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons