Blitzen, Oregon

Blitzen is a ghost town in the Catlow Valley of southern Harney County, Oregon.

It appears that at some point a post office named Blitzen was established about 10 miles south of Narrows, and named for the Donner und Blitzen River, which flowed nearby.

A Mr. Stewart served as the first postmaster, and the town's population gradually declined; there were only three families left in Blitzen in 1924.

The Blitzen post office continued to operate as a small rural delivery site until it was closed in February 1943.

This Harney County, Oregon state location article is a stub.

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