Nelson is an unincorporated historic locale in the

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, located in Baker County,

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. It is about southeast of Durkee on

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/ Interstate 84. Nelson is northwest of

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on the Burnt River and was the source of the limestone deposits used by the cement plant at

until the local deposits were depleted. A cement plant built in Nelson in 1979 replaced the one at Lime, which closed in 1980. The cement plant at Nelson closed temporarily in 2009, but as of 2014 it was operating again. The

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refers to the plant as their Durkee plant. Nelson is located on the

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mainline's Huntington Subdivision. The subdivision was originally owned by the

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; the original tracks were built here from 1882 to 1884.

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Images of Nelson
from Flickr Former populated places in Baker County, Oregon {{BakerCountyOR-geo-stub