Rice, Oregon

Rice, Oregon
Unincorporated community
Rice, Oregon is located in Oregon
Rice, Oregon
Rice, Oregon
Rice, Oregon is located in the United States
Rice, Oregon
Rice, Oregon
Coordinates: 45°30′19″N 121°02′39″W / 45.50528°N 121.04417°W / 45.50528; -121.04417
CountryUnited States
StateOregon
CountyWasco
Elevation
1,010 ft (310 m)
Time zoneUTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code(s)458 and 541
Coordinates and elevation from United States Geological Survey[1]

Rice is an unincorporated community in Wasco County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.[1] It is about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Dufur, near Boyd and U.S. Route 197.[2]

Rice was named for Horace Rice (1829-1915), an Oregon Trail pioneer who settled on upper Fifteenmile Creek in the 1860s and who planted the first crop of wheat in upland Wasco County.[3][4] When the Great Southern Railroad established a line into the area in 1905, Rice's name was given to the station near the confluence of Fifteenmile Creek and Dry Creek.[2][4][5] At one time Rice had a 50,000-bushel farmers' grain elevator run by the Rice-Union Elevator Company.[6][7] According to the author of Oregon Geographic Names, however, as of 1980 "there was little evidence of urban activity."

The historic[8] Rice Cemetery is the burial place for several members of the Rice family.[9][10]

  1. ^ a b "Rice". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  2. ^ a b Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. pp. 31, 72. ISBN 978-0-89933-347-2.
  3. ^ "Oregon Secretary of State Archives Division: Early Oregonian Person Profile: Horace Rice". secure.sos.state.or.us. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
  4. ^ a b McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 808. ISBN 978-0875952772.
  5. ^ Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. p. 613. ISBN 0-87004-332-3.
  6. ^ "Grain Meetings in County This Week". La Grande Observer. March 5, 1917.
  7. ^ "Grain Elevators to Rise". Commercial West. 29: 54. 1916.
  8. ^ "Historic Cemeteries in Oregon" (PDF). Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
  9. ^ "Oregon Secretary of State Archives Division: Early Oregonian Person Profile: Alice Amelia Rice". secure.sos.state.or.us. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
  10. ^ "Oregon Secretary of State Archives Division: Early Oregonian Person Profile: Emma Adaline Rice". secure.sos.state.or.us. Retrieved March 31, 2024.