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Latest Upper Rogue News

Prospect school candidates focus on students - 5/5/2013
PROSPECT — Two positions are contested in the Prospect School Board election, and because all four candidates have children attending Prospect...
Shady Cove adminstrator comes under fire - 5/4/2013
SHADY COVE — Thursday's City Council session was filled with drama: accusations of a cover-up, questions over the public release of...
Shady Cove will join Heritage District - 4/6/2013
SHADY COVE — After nearly an hour of heated debate, the City Council approved the city's inclusion in the proposed Rogue Valley Heritage...
Father-daughter team works for an elusive shot of OR-7 - 4/5/2013
BUTTE FALLS — Mark and Jennifer Vargas trudge through snow in the Cascade Mountains following a string of big, fresh cougar tracks, but it is...
How would our dams handle a Big One? - 4/1/2013
TRAIL — Federal safety officials this year plan to study Lost Creek dam's ability to withstand a catastrophic earthquake much more intense than...
Pear Blossom Royalty: Shantelle Oswald - 3/27/2013
EDITOR'S NOTE: Nine Jackson County senior girls have been selected as princesses to compete for the title of queen of the 2013 Pear Blossom Festival...
Small quake shakes region - 3/26/2013
A mild earthquake Monday afternoon jiggled deep in the Cascade Mountains 21 miles east of Shady Cove, but it likely went unnoticed to all but those...
Pear Blossom Royalty: Heather Lass - 3/25/2013
EDITOR'S NOTE: Nine Jackson County senior girls have been selected as princesses to compete for the title of queen of the 2013 Pear Blossom Festival...
Principal resigns from troubled Prospect school - 3/16/2013
The Prospect Charter School principal and a teacher have resigned amid turmoil over bullying and ongoing investigations by the Oregon Teacher...
An early springer gets juices flowing - 3/15/2013
SHADY COVE — For the first six days of March, Mark Randolph pulled himself out of his Shady Cove bed and trudged up to Cole Rivers Hatchery...
Shady Cove will seek out opinions on heritage plan - 3/9/2013
SHADY COVE — Although city councilors expressed unanimous opposition Thursday to endorsing the formation of a heritage district, they agreed to...
'No Carcass Left Behind' - 2/9/2013
TRAIL — A tote containing 800 rotten, smelly spring chinook salmon carcasses is pushed by forklift — very daintily — into fish...

About Upper Rogue

The Upper Rogue River region in the northern part of Jackson County is perhaps best known for its natural beauty. It�s home to Crater Lake National Park and the headwaters of the mighty Rogue River. It also includes a string of small towns and hamlets nestled along the river and deep in the woods.

Butte Falls

Dewings Co., of Reed City, Mich., bought timbered property near the falls on Big Butte Creek in 1901 and build a small, water-powered sawmill there in 1906, county records show. The company became known as the Butte Falls Sugar Pine Lumber Co. and its first boss, Bert Harris, platted the town of Butte Falls in 1905. It was dedicated and accepted by the Jackson County Recorder on Jan. 22, 1906.

City Hall:
431 Broad St.,
P.O. Box 268,
Butte Falls, OR 97522
Phone: 541-865-3262

Population:
445 (2009)

Shady Cove

Shady Cove takes its name from a sheltered nook along the banks of the Rogue River about 300 yards upstream from a Highway 62 bridge over the river. In the first quarter of the 20th century, two entrepreneurs platted the land next to the cove for a summer-home and recreational development. The post office that made Shady Cove a name rather than just a description of the locale opened in 1939. Shady Cove is the newest city in Jackson County, incorporated in 1972.

City Hall:
22451 Highway 62,
P.O. Box 1210,
Shady Cove, OR 97539
Phone: 541-878-2225
Fax: 541-878-2226

Population:
2,865 (2009)

Prospect

Prospect began as a logging town, with the first sawmill opening in 1870. The town was initially called Deskins after the first postmaster, but he fell on hard times and sold all his business ventures there. The man who bought his holdings and became the next postmaster changed the name to Prospect in 1889, �Oregon Geographic Names� reports. He chose the name based on the prospect that a rail line was headed into the area.

Trail

The community of Trail is at the mouth of Trail Creek, a Rogue tributary named for an Indian trail traversing its banks, according to �Oregon Geographic Names.� The trail between the Umpqua and Rogue river basins formed a shortcut between Roseburg and a military road to the south. A post office was established there in 1893.

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