Rieth is an
unincorporated community in
Umatilla County,
Oregon, United States.
It is south of
Interstate 84/
U.S. Route 30/
U.S. Route 395
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about west of
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near the
Umatilla River.
Rieth was an important division point of the
Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) was a railroad that operated a rail network of running east from Portland, Oregon, United States, to northeastern Oregon, northeastern Washington, and northern Idaho. It operated from 1896 as a ...
, which named the station at the new shops and terminals it constructed there after a local pioneer family, the Rieths.
The railway's
Pilot Rock
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Line, constructed in 1907, joined the mainline in Rieth.
This line was once the
Umatilla Central Railroad.
[ In 1917, the ]Post Office Department
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established an office named "Reith".[ The name was soon corrected by the ]United States Board on Geographic Names
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.[ The post office closed in 1971.][ The main railroad yards, now owned by Union Pacific, were later moved to Hinkle.][
In 1922, Rieth had a population of 200, a school, a store, and other businesses.][ In 1940 Rieth had a population of 45.]
References
External links
Images of Rieth
from Flickr
Image of Rieth School
from Panoramio
Unincorporated communities in Umatilla County, Oregon
1917 establishments in Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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