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Willamette , from the Clackamas language of the Columbia River, Oregon, can refer to:

A toponym of the U.S. state of Oregon:

  • Willamette River, a tributary of the Columbia River in northwestern Oregon
  • Willamette Valley, a region in northwest Oregon that surrounds the Willamette River
    • Willamette Valley AVA, Oregon wine region
  • Willamette Valley forests, an ecoregion that includes the Willamette Valley and adjacent parts of Washington
  • Willamette, Oregon, an unincorporated community that is now part of West Linn
  • Willamette National Forest, a National Forest in western Oregon
  • Willamette Falls, a natural waterfall on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn
  • Willamette Meteorite, a meteorite that was discovered in Oregon
  • Willamette Pass Resort, a ski area in the Cascade Range of Oregon
  • Willamette Stone, survey marker in Oregon
  • Willamette Cattle Company, a company formed in Oregon in 1837 to buy cattle in California
  • Willamette University, a private institution of higher learning located in Salem
  • Willamette Hall, a building on the University of Oregon campus
  • Willamette High School, a high school in Eugene

Usage examples of "willamette".

Either that, or they had been driven in the opposite direction, into the ranchlands of the broad Willamette Valley.

Every hotel, inn, motel, and lodging house in that region of the Willamette Valley, from Aurora and Molina in the north to Sublimity and Aumsville in the south was occupied, and there was scarcely a store in town that didn’t do more business over Festival Weekend than it did in the three months preceding it.

Every hotel, inn, motel, and lodging house in that region of the Willamette Valley, from Aurora and Molina in the north to Sublimity and Aumsville in the south was occupied, and there was scarcely a store in town that didn't do more business over Festival Weekend than it did in the three months preceding it.

They ran straight eastward towards the Willamette, went past an overgrown drainage ditch and became clearer still where they'd ridden down the wooded stream bank beyond, straight into Palmer Creek.

Convinced that a considerable river must drain the region to the south, Captain Clark went back alone and penetrating the intricate channels among the islands, found the mouth of the Multnomah, now better known as the Willamette.

Signe called a question, which was in character, and the driver told them what they carried: shelled filberts, nut oil and smoked salmon-the runs were improving on the Columbia since the dams at Bonneville and The Dalles broke, but not very far up the Willamette as yet.

Meanwhile, an enterprising fellow had refitted a couple of boats that used to run tours up and down the Willamette and Columbia, and was using them as ferries on regular runs between Linnton, Vancouver, Portland, and Oregon City.

This is the old 1887 line that runs between the RiverPlace development on the Portland waterfront and downtown Lake Oswego, passing through the forested private estates of Dunthorpe, a tunnel, and skirting along the cliffs high above the Willamette River and Elk Rock Island.

Delbaugh thought of his wife and seventeen-year-old son at home in Westlake Village, north of Los Angeles, and he thought of his other son, Tom, who was already on his way to Willamette to get ready for his junior year.