Pondosa is an unincorporated community and ghost town[1] in Union County, Oregon, United States. Pondosa has an elevation of 3261 feet (994 meters).[2]

Pondosa, Oregon
Unincorporated community
View of Pondosa in 1952
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Coordinates: 45.008°N 117.643°W / 45.008; -117.643
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Union
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)

The town came into being in 1927, when the four Stoddard brothers of La Grande bought land in the area.[3] They moved the sawmill operations of the Grande Ronde Lumber Company in nearby Perry to the site.[3] The town was named after the Ponderosa Pines that dotted the area.[3] A post office was established in 1927.[3] In 1931, Truman Collins of The Collins Companies of Portland bought the mill.[4] The mill was sold again in 1956, this time to Boise Cascade, which made plans to shut down the mill.[3] This caused the decline of the town, which had over 500 inhabitants at the time.[3] The post office was discontinued[3] following a severe fire that damaged the majority of the town on June 20, 1959.[1]

References

External links

• Pictorial History of Pondosa from Union County, Oregon Genealogy and History
• Britton, Lisa (August 13, 2021). "Town's Gone But the Store Stays". Baker City Herald. Retrieved December 25, 2021.