Morrow County TTTP Project is adoptable. If interested, you may contact the state administrator with your plan to build this site.

Morrow County Oregon TTTP Genealogy and History Project 

County courthousa located at Heppner. Old city of Heppner. Couldn't resist these as when I was young we actually drove old tractors like these. Cat, Case, Terraplane, etc.

Morrow County was created on February 15, 1884 from the western portion of Umatilla County and a small portion of eastern Wasco County. Heppner was designated the temporary county seat at the time the county was created and narrowly defeated Lexington in the election held in 1887 to determine the permanent county seat. [edit]Economy Early cattlemen found an abundance of rye along the creek bottoms of the region and drove their herds into the area to forage on these natural pastures. Ranching was the primary economic force in the county for many years. Increased settlement, the enclosure of the free grazing lands and diminished pastures due to overgrazing, resulted in the decline of ranching during the 19th century, and farming became predominant. The completion of rail lines into the county in 1883 increased access to markets and encouraged wheat production in the area. The advent of technology for center pivot irrigation has been a further stimulus to the local economy. The Morrow Port District, situated on the Columbia River near the town of Boardman, was established in 1957. The coal-fired electricity generation plant, the Boardman Turbine Coal Plant (601 megawatts), is located 14 miles (23 km) southwest of the town of Boardman, and is owned by Portland General Electric (PGE; 66%-owned and operated), Idaho Power (10%), Pacific Northwest Generating (10%), and General Electric Credit Corp. (16%). There are also two natural gas-fired plants located at the Port of Morrow; Coyote Springs I (255-276 MW), owned and operated by Portland General Electric; and Coyote Springs II (241-280 MW; PGE operator), a fifty-fifty joint venture of Avista Power & Mirant Corp.

Don Kelly, NW district, SA Washington and Oregon state and CA multiple county administrator