Wheatland is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Yamhill County, Oregon
Yamhill County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 107,722. The county seat is McMinnville. Yamhill County was named after the Yamhelas, members of the Kalapuya Tribe.
Yamhill Co ...
, United States. It is near the
Willamette River
The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward ...
where the
Wheatland Ferry takes traffic across the river into
Marion County. It is in the
Pacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−08:00 ...
.
See also
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Willamette Mission State Park
Willamette Mission State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon, located about north of Keizer, Oregon, Keizer adjacent to the Wheatland Ferry and east of the Willamette River. It includes Willamette Station Site, Methodist Mission in ...
, across the river from Wheatland
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Methodist Mission in Oregon
The Methodist Mission was the Methodist Episcopal Church's 19th-century conversion efforts in the Pacific Northwest. Local Indigenous cultures were introduced to western culture and Christianity. Superintendent Jason Lee was the principal leader f ...
, former settlement now part of the state park
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Wheatland Ferry, a historic river crossing and currently the only one between Salem and Newberg
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Maud Williamson State Recreation Site, a few miles to the west, donated and named after a teacher who taught at the former Wheatland school
References
External links
Historic images of Wheatlandfrom Salem Public Library
Unincorporated communities in Yamhill County, Oregon
Populated places on the Willamette River
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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