Talk:Lake County, Oregon

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I've upgraded somewhat, to the WikiProject U.S. counties standards. More work is needed. Here's a clip from the Project page for guidance and general to do list:


 * Introduction
 * History
 * Origin of the county's name
 * Circumstances of the county's establishment
 * Major historical events that occurred in county
 * Law/Government
 * County Executive-- current, previous executives
 * representative body?
 * Geography
 * County seat -- see complete list of county seats at http://www.campbellslist.com/county_seats/select_county_seat.php
 * Physical geography (area, unique features)
 * Geographic center and bounds, polygonal outline (latitude and longitude points)
 * List of Townships or other subdivisions
 * List of Municipalities
 * List of contiguous counties
 * Major Parks and Cultural Institutions
 * Notable Festivals and Parades, with dates
 * Economy
 * Major industries/products
 * Taxes
 * Demographics
 * County population
 * Racial/ethnic makeup
 * Religious makeup
 * List of Census-recognized cities and towns in the county
 * List of unincorporated communities in the county
 * List of adjacent counties
 * County Name - direction to border/optional direction to county
 * Note border shared with other country, if exists
 * Link back to full list of counties for state
 * Start at northernmost point, and move clockwise
 * See Jefferson County, Washington for example
 * Colleges/Universities in county, sporting teams in county, similar lists
 * A link to a list of counties in that county's state

I will continue to hammer at it and welcome some help, since I'm new to Lake County. Duff 07:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * One might also mention some of the more notorious aspects of Lake County's sociology. It is historically one of Oregon's poorer counties with a rather high incidence of unemployment, chronic underemployment, and people on public assistance, leading to all the afflictions of poverty:  drug use, alcoholism, youth disaffection, and a reaction by the authorities to use the police forces as agents of social change.Uniquerman (talk) 20:49, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Moreover, Lake County is listed among the top five or six counties in total crime rate in the state. It  has one of the highest rates of aggravated assault of any jurisdiction in the United States, recently 20 or so per annum in a population less than 8000, although the sample may be too small for large conclusions.  The burglary rate is roughly equivalent to the tenth worst city in the country.  It is higher than Portland, twice as high as L. A., and 4.5 times worse than New York.  An encyclopedia ought to be encyclopedic, not a marketing tool. Euonyman (talk) 15:25, 17 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Hey thanks for working to improve one of the sadly neglected county articles. Just a note about my pet area--since Oregon doesn't have any "towns" (see the explanation at Category:Towns in Oregon and Category:Towns in the United States), I think the previous heading "Communities" is more accurate, and it's consistent with the rest of the Oregon county articles. The WikiProject guidelines are excellent, but I think it's OK to customize them a bit. P.S. Let me know if you want me to look up anything in Oregon Geographic Names. Katr67 13:58, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It's pretty clear where the name of the county came from &mdash; Goose Lake, Summer Lake, Silver Lake, the Warner Lakes &mdash; as well as the name of the county seat &mdash; Lakeview. At the time the town was settled, in the 1870s, Goose Lake was at one of its periodic high points, in a cycle common for those playas at the foot of the block fault mountains in the Basin and Range country of the interior West. The block fault mountain in the case of Goose Lake would be Sugarloaf, on the east side of the lake, south of Willow Ranch, California. At that time, the lake came up to what is now the western edge of the town of Lakeview. A steamboat ran from the southern end of the lake at the head of the Pit River to the town of Lakeview, because the mountains on either edge of the lake presented pretty formidable obstacles to road-building, and a boat run was considerably easier. The lake has receded considerably from that high point, although not back to the lows of the 1840s, when the Applegate party came over the Fandango Pass out of Surprise Valley in their wagons, and crossed the bed of the lake, which was completely dry at that time. Some say that in some places you can still see the wagon tracks. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 07:46, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

New material
The recent expansion of the article is great, but be sure to cite any new info. Read about citations and reliable sources for more information. Please make sure none of this is original research, even if it's "common knowledge". Katr67 (talk) 16:40, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Recent Additions
I see you noticed I added some stuff. Glad you like it. There are some broken links because Wikipedia doesn't have pages for the Lake County Museum, Warner Wetlands, and the Summer Lake Wildlife Area. But I left them in because I think they should/ will have articles. It's a nightmare trying to figure out how to spell everything just right so it links to the appropriate Wikipedia page.

Lake County is a great frontier area with amazing geology and history. So hopefully peeps will continue to add to this article. I added some external links so that should provide a good start anyway. PEACE!

This seems to be the best site for basic information and summaries to flesh out this article: http://www.lakecountychamber.org/facts/index.html.(JoeTimko (talk) 19:14, 27 October 2008 (UTC))


 * Clearly this article suffers from over-reliance on sanitized opinions of the Chamber of Commerce. "Cattle ranchers later feuded and discouraged the wandering sheepherders." Discouraged? That seems like a pretty mild term for the range wars between cattlemen and sheepmen. Cattlemen armed with rifles killed sheep in the northern part of the county in the early 1900s, in disputes over grazing rights, exacerbated by the introduction of wheat farming. According to the Oregon History Project, 2,300 sheep were killed in a single night in April 1904 in Lake County. (http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=8A032B61-99BB-85F8-059105E03E7F13D6) MaxwellPerkins (talk) 03:14, 24 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Somehow the original link that I inserted to a page on the Oregon History Project web site got changed to a link to a (non-existent) Wikipedia page. I changed it back. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 20:15, 4 November 2013 (UTC)


 * After having my change reverted by EncMstr, and being chastised for making it and having a faulty memory to boot, I removed the link around "Oregon History Project," because that link to a non-existent Wikipedia page must have made it seem to the casual reader as if the source material didn't exist. Whereas now the casual reader will have to dig down into the references, which may not be obvious, as opposed to using a straightforward link, as almost all other web pages do. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 20:44, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Poor Lake County
I see that, according to Wikipedia, Lake County is not in Eastern Oregon, Central Oregon or Southern Oregon. I'm flummoxed. When I was growing up there, we always thought we were in Eastern Oregon. Just goes to show how ephemeral childhood illusions can be. The hard-hearted world rejected them. I guess we can hark back to football of the early 90s, to the Lonesome End for a designation: Lonesome Oregon. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 06:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Katr67 (talk) 07:05, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Not a suggestion, but a lament. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 07:47, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Oregon's outback.
One might beware of calling Lake County Oregon's Outback. No one who comes from there knows exactly where that is, except that the Federal Highway Administration has designated the route from LaPine along Hwy. 37 connecting to Hwy. 395 and south to Lakeview the Oregon Outback Scenic Byway. Oregon Outback was a term encouraged by ambitious local boosters to give the wild and rugged desolation of the area the magic of an undiscovered tourist destination and to develop an interest in its untrammeled remoteness. Before 1990 or so, very few people had heard of the phrase. Somehow the catchiness of it stuck and, like the expression Goose Lake Valley instead of Goose Valley, it is taken as having some historic value when it is a neologism.

Nothing wrong with new words, but if Oregon does have an outback, I'm sure it extends to all that part of the Great Basin west of the Snake River watershed.Uniquerman (talk) 20:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

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