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Land Area
98,386 square
miles
251.419 square km
(9th largest US state)
Geographic Center
Crook
(25 miles south-southeast of Prineville)
Highest Point
Mount Hood,
11,240 feet
Deepest Gorge
Hell's Canyon
7,900 feet
Deepest Lake
Crater Lake 1
932 feet
(deepest in U.S.)
Largest Lake
Malheur Lake
(south of Burns)
Longest River
Columbia
1,243 miles
Highest Waterfalls
Multnomah
Falls 620 feet
Motto
Alis Volat Propriis
Latin for "She Flies
With Her Own Wings"
Admitted to Union
February 14, 1859
(as 33rd US state) |