Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 396
Land area (2000): 0.614271 sq. miles (1.590954 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.614271 sq. miles (1.590954 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78150
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.571398 N, 117.532065 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97885
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wallowa
Housing Units (2000): 3900
Land area (2000): 3145.339022 sq. miles (8146.390322 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.355491 sq. miles (16.460646 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3151.694513 sq. miles (8162.850968 sq. km)
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.577336 N, 117.312122 W
Headwords:
Wallowa, OR
Wallowa County
Wallowa County, OR
Wikipedia
Wallowa may refer to the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce or to various geographical entities in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Oregon named after them:
- Wallowa County, Oregon
- The city of Wallowa, Oregon
- The Wallowa River
- The Wallowa Mountains
- Wallowa Lake
- Wallowa Lake State Park
- Wallowa–Whitman National Forest
It may also refer to the common name of the following plant species:
- Acacia calamifolia
- Acacia euthycarpa
Usage examples of "wallowa".
If someone unfamiliar with the justice system in the state of Oregon were to deliberately choose a place to get away with a crime, they could not have done better than the Maxwell Campgrounds in Wallowa County.
However, Wallowa County had some top investigators, a highly intelligent district attorney, and backup from the Oregon State Police detectives and criminalists if they needed it.
The summits are more than five thousand feet high, and then the roads descend through tiny villages whose buildings are mostly gray shadows of their former incarnations, tumbled with old-fashioned perennials and weeds, fading storefronts and little churches with peeling paint: Adams, Athena, Elgin, Minam, Wallowa, Lostine.
Sheltered between the Wallowa Mountains to the west and the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area to the east, Enterprise, population 1,900, is a wonderful place to live, but only if one is self-employed, working for the county or the city, or serving the needs of the residents.
Perched on the shore of Wallowa Lake, Joseph has embraced sculpture and bronze foundries as a very successful economic lifeline.
In the summer, Wallowa Lake is a burning hollow in the mountains, with its azure water reflecting the sun and the sky.
A lift carries tourists who aren’t afraid of heights far up the Wallowa Range.
The center of Wallowa County government is in Enterprise, where a courthouse built in 1909 sits in the center of parklike grounds.
Ninety-four years’ worth of feet have worn away the interior stairways as generations of citizens went about their business with public records and the laws of Wallowa County.
He had been involved in law enforcement for eighteen years, and he had worked in the Wallowa County Sheriff’s Office for fourteen and a half of those years.
His primary job was to oversee the deputies and run the patrol, but in Wallowa County, even the undersheriff had to pull shifts and work patrol.
And if a sudden early blizzard came—as it often did in Wallowa County—it might have been spring before anyone came in.
Sharon was an attractive woman who had once been a pretty girl with thick dark hair—so pretty that she had been chosen queen of “Chief Joseph Days” in Wallowa County when she was only fifteen, the youngest Chief Joseph Days queen ever.
Although they still didn’t know exactly what they were dealing with, the Wallowa County Sheriff’s Office and its District Attorney’s Office were certainly not geared up to launch a major death investigation.
There weren’t that many people living in Wallowa County, only about 7,100.