Long Creek, OR

Long Creek is a city in Grant County, Oregon, United States. The 2020 census counted 173 residents. The city is named after John Long, a prominent miner who came to Grant County in 1862 during the Canyon City rush of that same year. Located in a high valley of the Blue Mountains, ranching has been the principal enterprise for the area. The through line in Long Creek is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Long Creek makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Log harvesting was slowly curtailed in the nearby Malheur National Forest until the local mill was closed in 1998. The city was incorporated in 1891. Its cold winter temperatures nearly qualify its climate as a humid continental climate.