In Yamhill, Oregon, it is unlawful to practice the “occult arts,” which include fortune telling, spiritualism, astrology, and anything else “generally recognized to be unsound and unscientific”.1)
Oregon ranked top in a 2019 survey of all states for having the most dependable, least priced energy infrastructure that also uses renewable energy sources.2)
Some of the original wagon ruts from the Oregon Trail have been maintained in various locations of the state.3)
Oregon's whole western boundary is 363 miles of Pacific Ocean coastline.4)
There were no bridges along the coastal path that subsequently became US Highway 101 until the mid-1900s, thus stagecoaches drove on the sandy beaches.5)
The 40 miles of coastal sand dunes in Oregon are the longest in North America.6)
Whales can be seen from lookouts along the Oregon coast between January and March.7)
Oregon offers a number of yearly flower festivals, including the Depoe Bay Fleet of Flowers, the Azalea Festival, the Cranberry Festival, and the Rhododendron Festival.8)
The massive 1840s migration to the West Coast along the Oregon Trail was dubbed “Oregon Fever”.9)
The 19th-century exodus to the West over the Oregon Trail is regarded as one of the biggest voluntary human migrations in history.10)
Many locations along Oregon's coast are named after the first Europeans to find them, including Cape Blanco, Cape Ferrelo, Cape Sebastian, Heceta Head, Cape Falcon, and Yaquina Head.11)
After a swarm of Americans settled the country in the 1840s, the other European nations gave the territory that became Oregon state to the United States.12)
The first successful English settlement west of the Rocky Mountains was Astoria, Oregon.13)
The Douglas fir, Oregon's state tree, was introduced to other parts of the world by 19th-century naturalist David Douglas.14)
Oregon City, the first American settlement west of the Missouri River, was founded in 1844.15)
The first US territory government was established in Oregon in 1848.16)
Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States, with a depth of over 1,940 feet.17)
The “Humongous Fungus”, the world's biggest living creature, lives in Oregon's Malheur National Forest. The single fungus organism covers over three square miles and might be as ancient as 8,000 years.18)
Nobody knows where the term “Oregon” came from; suggestions include French and Native American Chinook as possible sources.19)
Although Oregon is known as the Beaver State, and the beaver is the state animal, by the time the state was established in 1859, fur merchants had depleted the state's beaver population to the point that they were no longer a viable product.20)
Hell's Canyon in Oregon is the deepest gorge in the United States, deep enough to hold five stacked Eiffel Towers.21)
On the Oregon coast, sea lions may be found in a variety of caves and tunnels.22)
The Beaver State is Oregon's nickname. Thousands of trappers were drawn to the country in the 1800s by the heavily furred animal, and their pelts were a prized trading item.23)
In Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest, there is the only Big Foot trap in the world.24)
Matt Groening, an Oregon native, named the hometown of his renowned cartoon family, the Simpsons, after Springfield, Oregon.25)
Oregon is the major supplier of softwood lumber in the United States.26)
Powell's City of Books, situated in Portland, Oregon, is the world's biggest independent bookshop, with 3,500 separate categories of new and secondhand books.27)
Nobody knows exactly how Oregon's state rock, the thunderegg (similar to a geode but with a mineral-filled center), gets made.28)
Oregon's state flag is the only one in the United States that has a different design on each side.29)
Oregon has the most ghost towns of any state in the United States.30)