Fossil
Fossil is a city in and the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States. The name was chosen by the first postmaster, Thomas B. Hoover, who had found some fossil remains on his ranch. As of the 2020 census, Fossil had a population of 447.Photo: Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 413 residents
- Description: city in Oregon, USA
- Also known as: “Fossil, OR” and “Fossil, Oregon”
- Postal code: 97830
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fossil Public School and Wheeler High School.
Fossil Public School
School
The Fossil Public School, also known as Wheeler County Public School, is a historic Classical Revival style school in Fossil, Oregon, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Wheeler High School
School
Photo: Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wheeler High School is a public high school in Fossil, Oregon, United States. It is in the Fossil School District, and competes jointly with Spray and Mitchell school as the Spray-Mitchell-Wheeler Rattlers.
Fossil
- Categories: city of Oregon, county seat, and locality
- Location: Wheeler, Eastern Oregon, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.998° or 44° 59′ 53″ northLongitude
-120.215° or 120° 12′ 54″ westPopulation
413Elevation
2,661 feet (811 metres)Open location code
84PXXQXM+6XOpenStreetMap ID
node 150965438OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5727319Wikidata ID
Q2293692
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Fossil” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوسيل”
- Basque: “Fossil”
- Bulgarian: “Фосъл”
- Catalan: “Fossil”
- Cebuano: “Fossil”
- Chechen: “Фоссил”
- Chinese: “Fossil”
- Chinese: “福斯尔”
- Chinese: “福斯爾”
- Czech: “Fossil”
- Dutch: “Fossil”
- Finnish: “Fossil”
- French: “Fossil”
- German: “Fossil”
- Gilaki: “فوسیل (اؤرگن)”
- Gilaki: “فوسیل”
- Haitian: “Fossil, Oregon”
- Haitian: “Fossil”
- Hungarian: “Fossil”
- Ido: “Fossil, Oregon”
- Ido: “Fossil”
- Irish: “Fossil”
- Italian: “Fossil”
- Japanese: “フォッシル”
- Kazakh: “Фоссил”
- Kirghiz: “Фоссил”
- Ladin: “Fossil”
- Malagasy: “Fossil, Oregon”
- Malagasy: “Fossil”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fossil”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fossil (Oregon)”
- Norwegian: “Fossil”
- Persian: “فسیل، اورگن”
- Persian: “فسیل”
- Polish: “Fossil”
- Portuguese: “Fossil”
- Russian: “Фоссил”
- Serbian: “Fossil”
- Serbian: “Фосил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fossil, Oregon”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fossil”
- Slovak: “Fossil”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوزسیل، اورقن”
- Spanish: “Fossil (Oregón)”
- Spanish: “Fossil”
- Swedish: “Fossil, Oregon”
- Swedish: “Fossil”
- Tatar: “Фоссил”
- Ukrainian: “Фоссіл”
- Uzbek: “Fossil”
- Vietnamese: “Fossil, Oregon”
- Vietnamese: “Fossil”
- Volapük: “Fossil”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fossil, Oregon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fossil”
- Welsh: “Fossil, Oregon”
- Welsh: “Fossil”
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