Cold Springs, Oregon

Cold Springs is an unincorporated community in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States, south of the Columbia River in the Hermiston area. Cold Springs Junction is a populated place and highway junction about 4 miles (6 km) northeast of Cold Springs at the junction of Oregon Route 37 and U.S. Route 730.[2]

Cold Springs, Oregon
Unincorporated community
Cold Springs, Oregon Location within the state of Oregon
Coordinates: 45°52′42″N 119°09′56″W
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Umatilla
Elevation	574 ft (175 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code(s)	458 and 541
GNIS feature ID	1158171[1]
Coordinates and elevation from Geographic Names Information System

The present-day Cold Springs was a station of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company,[3] which is the Union Pacific Railroad today.[4] Its elevation is 574 feet (175 m).[1]

One of several geographic features in the area—including Cold Springs Wash, Cold Springs Reservoir and Cold Springs Canyon—that were likely named after a local spring, Cold Springs post office was established in 1880 and ran until 1883.[4] It was in the Middle Fork Cold Springs Canyon west of Myrick and east of the reservoir about 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Cold Springs station.[5] The reservoir was formed in the early 1900s when the wash was dammed to provide storage for water diverted from the Umatilla River for irrigation.[4]

See also

• Cold Springs National Wildlife Refuge

References

1. "Cold Springs". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
2. "Cold Springs Junction". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
3. Avers, Henry G. (1926). "First-Level Ordering in Oregon" (PDF). United States Department of Commerce: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
4. McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
5. "Cold Springs Post Office (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 1, 1994. Retrieved December 24, 2009.