Starkey, Oregon

Starkey is an unincorporated community in Union County, Oregon, United States, about 26 miles southwest of La Grande.

[1] It is about two miles south of Oregon Route 244 in the Blue Mountains.

[2] Starkey was the headquarters of the Mount Emily Lumber Company.

[4] The town went through a significant population boom by 1940 because of a portable logging operation,[5] but the townsite was liquidated by the Valsetz Lumber Company in 1955.

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