Bridgeport, Baker County, Oregon

Bridgeport, Oregon
Unincorporated community
The Burnt River at Bridgeport
The Burnt River at Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Oregon is located in Oregon
Bridgeport, Oregon
Bridgeport, Oregon
Bridgeport, Oregon is located in the United States
Bridgeport, Oregon
Bridgeport, Oregon
Coordinates: 44°29′09″N 117°44′43″W / 44.48583°N 117.74528°W / 44.48583; -117.74528
Country United States
State Oregon
CountyBaker
Elevation
3,389 ft (1,033 m)
Time zoneUTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code
97819
Area codes458 and 541
GNIS feature ID1161286[1]

Bridgeport is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States.[1] Bridgeport is south of Baker City and just east of Oregon Route 245.[2] The Burnt River flows by Bridgeport.[2]

From Oregon Geographic Names

"C.A. Moore, of Baker, in a letter in the Oregonian, Aug. 7, 1926, p.8, gives the early history of this community. In 1961-63 considerable placer gold was discovered at Clark Creek, several miles southeast of Bridgeport. Supplies were packed from Baker over the old Creighton road, crossing Burnt River near where Hereford now is, and then down the river on the south side to these mines, where there were some stores and a post office. Bridgeport is on the south bank of the river, which could not then be forded. The need for a wagon road and a shorter route to Clark Creek lead Dr. Jacob M. Boyd and James W. Virtue and associates, in 1868, to begin the construction of a toll road from Baker to what is now Bridgeport, and in 1869 this road was made passable for the entire distance. At the south end of the road, where it crossed the river, there was a bridge some 200 feet long, and since this was the terminus of the toll road, it was decided to call the place Bridgeport.[3]"

References

  1. ^ a b "Bridgeport". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-89933-347-2.
  3. ^ McArthur, Louis A. (1928). Oregon Geographic Names (6th ed.). Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press (published 1992). p. 96. ISBN 0-87595-237-2. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
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