Biggs Junction, Oregon

Biggs Junction is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sherman County, Oregon, United States.

[6] Biggs is a station on the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) at what was once a junction with the UP's Grass Valley line to Kent that has since been abandoned.

[7] The rail line was originally owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company (OR&N).

In 1885 the OR&N station at Biggs was called Spanish Hollow, after the canyon that opens on the river there.

[7] The canyon was said to be named because a Spanish ox died there in the days of the Oregon Trail, which runs parallel to U.S.

[7][9][10][11] Biggs is where travelers on the Oregon Trail would first see the Columbia River after their overland journey.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), all land.

Biggs Junction (right) at the approach to the Sam Hill Memorial Bridge over the Columbia River
Sherman County map