Tue, 12/15/2009 - 5:47pm - Posted by: wildcat11

OK then...Somebody better tell Willamette Valley Medical that they better change their name to be geographically correct.

Tue, 12/15/2009 - 11:16am - Posted by: NatetheGreat

Anybody can write anything they want. The reality is that the Yamhill WATERSHED is a part of the Willamette Valley. People can write something in a book and still be wrong. If we live in the Yamhill Valley, then city park is in the Cozine Valley and Baker Creek road must be in the Baker Valley. Give me a break!

Tue, 12/15/2009 - 4:39am - Posted by: Fleadog

Thanks Jeb, it has always bugged me that someone always complains when the phrase "Yamhill Valley" is used. If one thinks about it, our county is pretty much a continuous valley from Gaston to Dallas. The Sheriffs office refers to Sheridan/Willamina as the West Valley and the Fire services in Willamina is West Valley Fire and Rescue, so Yamhill Valley is correct nomenclature, even if you have never heard it before or you plain just don't like it.
Aaron Van Beurden
Sheridan

Mon, 12/14/2009 - 9:23pm - Posted by: jbladine

Others have questioned the existence of the Yamhill Valley.

Geologically, it is a long, slender valley area bounded by Eola Hills on the East and the Coast Range on the West, running from south of Monmouth to north of Yamhill. It has become widely embraced as a name designating this portion of the Willamette Valley, just as there are local areas known as Muddy Valley and Chehalem Valley.

Here’s a passage from the “Coast Indian Reservation” chapter in The Oregon Encyclopedia:
“In the spring of 1855, the Rogue River Indian war erupted in southwestern Oregon. White settlers and miners sought to permanently remove Indians from the region, and the tribes sought to defend their land from encroachment. Palmer quickly acted to begin the removal of the tribes from southwestern Oregon. In the summer of 1955, boats transported two large groups of Indians from Port Orford to Portland and then to the Yamhill Valley. Another group was marched to the Siletz coastal area. In early 1856, the tribes that remained on the Table Rock and Umpqua reservations and in the Willamette Valley were later moved to the new temporary reservation in the Yamhill Valley.

Here’s a passage from the “Tualatin” chapter of that same Encyclopedia:
“Sixteen Tualatin villages are known by name: these stretched through Tualatin Plains (modern-day Beaverton, Hillsboro, Mountaindale, Forest Grove), the Wapato Valley (Gaston), and the Chehalem and North Yamhill Valleys (Newberg, Carlton, Yamhill).

And from the Oregon State Archives document entitled “Provisional and Territorial Records Guide:”
“Whites first entered the area in 1814. Most were employees of the various fur companies operating in Oregon. Many of the American immigrants of 1843-1844 settled in the Yamhill Valley. The area quickly became the agricultural center of the Willamette Valley, producing high quality farm products.”

Jeb Bladine
News-Register

Mon, 12/14/2009 - 4:10pm - Posted by: ace1

........and yet, everyone that reported it was coming still gets a paycheck for getting it dead wrong. wow...i want to be a reporter.

Mon, 12/14/2009 - 12:26pm - Posted by: NatetheGreat

Where's the Yamhill Valley? Last time I checked it doesn't exist. We live in the Willamette Valley.