| Official Name: | Rice, 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: | Wasco |
| Timezone: | Pacific (PST) |
| Utc Offset: | -8 |
| Timezone Dst: | PDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -7 |
| Elevation Ft: | 1010 |
| Coordinates: | 45.5053°N -121.0442°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Area Code: | 458 and 541 |
| Footnotes: | Coordinates and elevation from United States Geological Survey[1] |
Rice is an unincorporated community in Wasco County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.[1] It is about 5miles northeast of Dufur, near Boyd and U.S. Route 197.[2] Rice was named for Horace Rice (1829-1915), an Oregon Trail pioneer who settled on upper Fifteenmile Creek in the 1860s and who planted the first crop of wheat in upland Wasco County.[3] When the Great Southern Railroad established a line into the area in 1905, Rice's name was given to the station near the confluence of Fifteenmile Creek and Dry Creek.[2] [4] At one time Rice had a 50,000-bushel farmers' grain elevator run by the Rice-Union Elevator Company.[5] [6] According to the author of Oregon Geographic Names, however, as of 1980 "there was little evidence of urban activity."
The historic[7] Rice Cemetery is the burial place for several members of the Rice family.[8] [9]
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