Oregon City
Oregon City, formerly Bloomingdale and Hengy, is a ghost town located between Oroville and Cherokee in Butte County, California. One of the first mining camps in the county, it was established in the autumn of 1848 by a party of Oregonians, who came to California over the Applegate and Lassen trails.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in California
- Also known as: “Oregon City, CA” and “Oregon City, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castleberry Covered Bridge and Phantom Falls.
Phantom Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Ferrettiphotography, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Phantom Falls or Coal Canyon Falls is a waterfall at Coal Canyon near Oroville, California, within the North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve. The waterfall is 166 feet high and runs off the edge of Coal Canyon, in front of a grotto. Phantom Falls is situated 2 miles northwest of Oregon City.
North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Anthonysthwd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve of 3,315 acres located three miles north of Oroville, in Butte County, northern California. The land was acquired by the state in October, 1993. North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve is situated 2½ miles west of Oregon City.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oroville.
Oroville
Oroville is a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. With a population in the greater urban area of 40,000, it is the seat of Butte County.
Oregon City
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Butte County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.59378° or 39° 35′ 38″ northLongitude
-121.52941° or 121° 31′ 46″ westElevation
1,184 feet (361 metres)Open location code
84FWHFVC+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 141044100OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Oregon City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مدينة أوريغون”
- Chinese: “俄勒岡城”
- French: “Oregon City”
- German: “Hengy, Bloomingdale”
- German: “Oregon City”
- Persian: “اورگن سیتی، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “اورگن سیتی”
- Turkish: “Oregon City”
- Volapük: “Oregon City, California”
- Volapük: “Oregon City”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Oregon City”. Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.