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North Bend is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States with a population of 9,695 as of the 2010 census. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] North Bend is surrounded on three sides by Coos Bay , an S-shaped water inlet and estuary where the Coos River enters Coos Bay and borders the city of Coos Bay to the south.
Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge is a 7,055 acre (28.6km 2) [1] wildlife refuge located 5 miles south-east of Dardanelle, Arkansas. The Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge is bounded on one side by the Arkansas River and on its other sides by an oxbow lake that was formerly the main channel of the Arkansas.
Mountain View High School opened 45 years ago in 1979 as the second high school in the greater Bend area. [4] It was the first new high school in the area since Bend High School had opened in 1904, and the two schools remained the only traditional high schools in Bend until Summit High School opened in 2001 (Marshall High School is a magnet high school also located in Bend). [5]
Bend Studio (formerly Blank, Berlyn & Co., Inc. and Eidetic, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Bend, Oregon. Founded in 1992, the studio is best known for developing Bubsy 3D, the Syphon Filter series, and Days Gone. Since 2000, Bend Studio is a first-party developer for PlayStation Studios.
The airport was transferred to the City of North Bend in 1947 as military surplus property. The first airline flights were West Coast DC-3s in 1947; successor Hughes Airwest pulled out in 1979. The City of North Bend transferred management of the airport to the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay in July 1999.
The Rock O' the Range Bridge, also called the Swalley Canal Bridge, is a bridge located north of Bend, Oregon, U.S., on a street adjacent to U.S. Route 97. It is the only covered span in the state of Oregon on the east side of the Cascade Range. It is also one of very few privately owned covered bridges in Oregon.
Map from The Vikings team, or the Old Oregon Trail 1852–1906, by Ezra Meeker Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906. [1] The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [2] Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
The county seat is Bend. [2] The county was created in 1916 out of part of Crook County and was named for the Deschutes River, which itself was named by French-Canadian trappers of the early 19th century. It is the political and economic hub of Central Oregon. Deschutes comprises the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area [3] and media ...