| Ogle Creek | |
| Name Etymology: | Bob Ogle, a prospector from Molalla[1] |
| Map Size: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Oregon |
| Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Ogle Creek mouth in Oregon |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | United States |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name2: | Oregon |
| Subdivision Type4: | County |
| Subdivision Name4: | Marion, Clackamas |
| Source1: | Cascade Range |
| Source1 Location: | near Ogle Mountain |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 44.8856°N -122.3361°W[2] |
| Source1 Elevation: | 3081feet[3] |
| Mouth: | Molalla River |
| Mouth Location: | river mile 46 (km 74) on the Molalla, Clackamas County |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 44.9144°N -122.3308°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 1847feet |
Ogle Creek is a headwaters tributary, about 2miles long, of the Molalla River in the northwestern part of Oregon in the United States. From its source in the Cascade Range, it flows north from far-northern Marion County into Clackamas County near Ogle Mountain. From there it continues north into the river about 46miles above its confluence with the Willamette River.[4]
Ogle Creek was named for Bob Ogle,[1] a Molalla prospector who found gold along the creek in 1862. An Oregon City Mining Company employee had found placer gold along the upper Molalla in 1860. Over the next 40 years, many others filed mining claims in the Molalla watershed. The biggest claimant, the Ogle Mountain Mining Company, operated the Ogle Mountain Mine between 1903 and 1915. Limited mining continued here until 1953, when Weyerhaeuser bought the land for timber.[5]