The Columbia River - Sundale, Washington

Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
"Sundale, Washington"

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Image, 2006, Sundale, Washington, from Interstate 84, click to enlarge

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Sundale, Washington, from Interstate 84, Oregon. Image taken October 2, 2006.

Sundale ...

Sundale is located on the Washington side of the Columbia River at River Mile (RM) 236. Upstream is Roosevelt and downstream is Rock Creek, the site of Lewis and Clark's camp of April 23, 1806. Across from Sundale and slightly downstream is the historical Oregon location of Blalock, once a railroad community but now under the waters of Lake Umatilla, the reservoir behind the John Day Dam. Sundale began as a railroad town on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle (SP&S) Railway. It's descriptive name was chosen by L.W. Hill and C.M. Levy, officials of the SP&S. Today Sundale supports a large fruit orchard.

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^*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, 2003

Sources: Hitchman, R., 1985, Place Names of Washington, Washington State Historical Society.

All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.