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Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States

Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States

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Elevation

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4,154 ft (1,266 m)

Olene, Oregon
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 42°10′19″N 121°37′51″W / 42.17194°N 121.63083°W / 42.17194; -121.63083
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Klamath
Elevation ^[1]	4,154 ft (1,266 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
GNIS feature ID	1124978^[1]

Olene is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. The community is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Klamath Falls on Oregon Route 140.^[2] Olene currently has a general store and at one time it had a school.^[3]^[4]^[5]

In 1940 Olene had a population of 62 and was considered a suburb of Klamath Falls.^[6] Olene was the center of a prosperous dairy and potato farming district.^[6]

According to William Gladstone Steel, Olene is a Klamath word meaning "eddy place" or "place of drift." O. C. Applegate adopted the word for the site in 1884 when the post office was established.^[7] The original Olene post office was up the Lost River from the current townsite.^[7] When the post office closed in 1966, it was near The Gap, a restriction in the Lost River.^[7]^[8] This gap is also known as Olene Gap, and the Olene Hot Springs are nearby.^[9]^[10]

The community was along a rail line operated jointly by Southern Pacific and Burlington Northern. Today the OC&E Woods Line State Trail, a rails to trails conversion, passes through Olene.^[11] Originally built by the Oregon, California and Eastern Railway, the railroad line reached Olene in 1918.^[9]

A geothermal drilling project near Olene was completed in early 2013, and the temperature produced by that well was in excess of 280 °F (138 °C).^[12] Plans included drilling two or three more wells for a commercial-scale power plant, with a planned electrical capacity of 21 MWe.^[12]

References

1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Olene, Oregon
↑ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 70. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
↑ "Parking and Access". Klamath Rails-to-Trail Group. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
↑ "Itineraries". Klamath Visitor & Convention Bureau. Archived from the original on September 21, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
↑ Tonsfeldt, Ward (August 1990). "Historical Resource Survey: Klamath County, Oregon" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
1 2 Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon (1940). Oregon: End of the Trail. American Guide Series. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort. p. 440. OCLC 4874569.
1 2 3 McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 720. ISBN 978-0875952772.
↑ "The Gap". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
1 2 "OC&E Woods Line State Trail". Explore!. December 5, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
↑ "Olene Hot Springs". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. May 22, 1986. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
↑ "OC&E Woods Line State Trail". Klamath Rails-to-Trail Group. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
1 2 "Second Geothermal Well in the Works in Olene Area". Global Geothermal News. Retrieved October 14, 2013.

External links

Historic image of Olene Store from Flickr

v t e Municipalities and communities of Klamath County, Oregon, United States
County seat: Klamath Falls
Cities	Bonanza Chiloquin Klamath Falls Malin Merrill	Klamath County map
CDPs	Altamont Beatty Beaver Marsh Bly Chemult Crescent Crescent Lake Falcon Heights Fort Klamath Gilchrist Keno Oregon Shores Rocky Point Running Y Ranch
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Indian reservation	Klamath Reservation
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