Cazadero is an
unincorporated historic locale in
Clackamas County, Oregon
Clackamas County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Oregon City. The county was named after the Native ...
, United States.
Cazadero was a station on the
Estacada
Estacada is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, about southeast of Portland. The 2020 population is estimated to be 3,700. According to the 2010 census, the population in 2010 was 2,695. It is the 89th largest city in Oregon and t ...
interurban railway line of the
Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P) and later
Portland Electric Power Company (PEPCO), near where the power plant of the PEPCO-owned
Cazadero Dam was located on the
Clackamas River
The Clackamas River is an approximately tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, in the United States. Draining an area of about , the Clackamas flows through mostly forested and rugged mountainous terrain in its upper reaches, a ...
.
The station was named by the original promoters of the line, likely after
Cazadero, California
Cazadero (Spanish for "hunting ground") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Sonoma County, California, United States with a population of 354 in 2010. The downtown of Cazadero consists of two churches, a ...
.
[ ''Cazadero'' is a ]Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
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word meaning "a place for the pursuit of game".[ Cazadero post office operated from 1904–1918;][ it was located southeast of Cazadero station, near what is now ]Oregon Route 224
Oregon Route 224 is a state highway which runs through some of Portland's southeastern suburbs and ends in the Cascades.
Route description
The northwestern terminus is an interchange with OR 99E in Milwaukie, a suburb of Portland. It continues ...
at .
Railway history
Service to Cazadero was routed via Lents
The Lents neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon is bordered by SE Powell Blvd. on the north, the Clackamas County line or City of Portland line on the south (whichever is farther south), SE 82nd Ave. to the west, and roughly S ...
and Gresham, along the Springwater Corridor
The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It follows a former railway line from Boring through Gresham to Portland, where it ends south of the Eastbank Espla ...
, and the Gresham– Boring–Cazadero section was built in 1903–04, with electric interurban
The Interurban (or radial railway in Europe and Canada) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between cities or towns. They were very prevalent in North America between 1900 ...
service reaching Boring in 1903[Thompson, Richard (2008). ''Willamette Valley Railways'', pp. 9, 11. ]Arcadia Publishing
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. . The line was built and operated by the Oregon Water Power and Railway Company (OWP), but by 1906 OWP had been taken over the PRL&P,[Labbe (1980), pp. 121–123.] which in turn was reorganized as PEPCO in 1924.[Labbe (1980), p. 141.]
Cazadero station was located three stations beyond Estacada on the interurban line[ and was the end of the line for many years, until PEPCO eventually developed the line farther up the river.][ The interurban service was abandoned in 1933,]railfan
A railfan, rail buff or train buff (American English), railway enthusiast, railway buff or trainspotter ( Australian/British English), or ferroequinologist is a person who is recreationally interested in trains and rail transport systems.
Rai ...
s in an old interurban car covered the line in 1953.["Railway Fans On Last Ride; Old No. 1101 In Final Battle" (June 23, 1953). ''The Oregonian'', Section 3, p. 5.]
References
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Unincorporated communities in Clackamas County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
Railway towns in Oregon