| Official Name: | Pleasant Valley, Oregon |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Oregon#USA |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Oregon |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Baker |
| Timezone: | Pacific (PST) |
| Utc Offset: | -8 |
| Timezone Dst: | PDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -7 |
| Elevation Ft: | 3757 |
| Coordinates: | 44.6744°N -117.6306°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Area Code: | 458 and 541 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 1125477[1] |
Pleasant Valley is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States.[1] It is about 13miles southeast of Baker City on U.S. Route 30, slightly bypassed by Interstate 84.[2] [3]
Pleasant Valley was a way station on the Place Toll Road in 1865, and later a freight station on the railroad in 1884.[3] [4] Early Oregon Trail settlers farmed in the area.[4] Pleasant Valley post office was established in 1868 and operated for only two months.[5] An office with the same name was established in 1890 and closed in 1962.[5] According to the authors of Oregon Geographic Names, the community later consisted only of a motel and a Union Pacific Railroad station.[5] By 2001, the motel had been converted into a residence.[6]
The Pleasant Valley area is the home of several stone quarries that supplied the tuff stone commonly used for building material in Baker City.[3] [7] At one time Pleasant Valley was a community with enough population and settled arable land surrounding it to warrant a school district.[3] School District #12 was organized by superintendent W. F. Payton in 1874, with a two-room school house serving grades 1 through 8.[3] The district added classes for high-school-age students for a few years before consolidating with the Baker City school district in 1949.[3] The third and last schoolhouse was constructed of the nearby native stone and was later converted to a residence.[3] In 1900, the community had a Christian Church congregation.[8] Today the community proper is considered a ghost town,[3] however the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) lists it as a populated place.[1]