Rye Valley is an unincorporated community in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.

[1] It lies along Dixie Creek, a tributary of the Burnt River, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Baker City.

[3] The community is named for a native grass used as forage for pack animals important to the region's immigrants and miners in the 1860s.

[2] On July 24, 2014, a wildfire started by lightning happened in Rye Valley.

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