Bend City, Deschutes County, Oregon (OR) 97701

Bend City

Deschutes County, Oregon

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Bend City Hall is located at 710 NW Wall Street, Bend, OR 97701.
Phone: 541‑388‑5505.


Emil and Ottilie Wienecke House

Beginnings [1]

Bend was not a pioneer settlement in the sense of early establishment. The city's name is derived from "Farewell Bend" which was the only place for many miles where the Deschutes River could be easily forded. The high Pilot Butte was an excellent landmark. For a time, however, better routes diverted travel from the bend and it was forgotten, except by the few cattlemen who ranged their stock thereabouts. Then in 1900, A. M. Drake, an easterner who had come west in search of health, heard of its high altitude and dry climate. Accompanied by his wife he visited it, and Mrs. Drake became so enamored of its beauty they decided to remain.

Neighborhoods

  • Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District
  • Old Town Historic District
  • Ambrosia
  • Arrowhead Acres
  • Aspen Heights
  • Aspen Rim
  • Aspen Rimx
  • Aviara
  • Avonlea Estate
  • Awbrey
  • Awbrey Butte
  • Awbrey Glen
  • Awbrey Heights
  • Awbrey Highlands
  • Awbrey Meadows
  • Awbrey Park
  • Awbrey Point
  • Awbrey Village
  • Badlands Ranch
  • Barton Crossing
  • Bend Golf Club
  • Bend Park
  • Bend View
  • Big Sky
  • Blakley Heights
  • Bonne Home
  • Boonesborough
  • Boulder Ridge
  • Boyd Acre Crossing
  • Boyd Acres
  • Bradetich Park
  • Braebern
  • Breckenridge
  • Broken Top
  • Brookland Park
  • Brookside
  • Buena Ventura
  • Burning Tree
  • Caldera Springs
  • Camden Park
  • Canal View
  • Canyon Breeze
  • Canyon Park Estates
  • Cascade Gardens
  • Cascade Terrace
  • Cascade View Estates
  • Cascade Village
  • Cedar Creek
  • Centennial Glen
  • Century West
  • Chestnut Park
  • Cimmarron City
  • City View
  • Clear Sky Estates
  • College Park
  • Conestoga Hills
  • Conifer Estates
  • Copper Canyon
  • Copper Glen
  • Copper Springs
  • Cougar Grove
  • Country View Estates
  • Craftsman Creek
  • Crosswater
  • Crosswinds
  • Deer Pointe Village
  • Deschutes Landing
  • Deschutes River Acres
  • Deschutes River Crossing
  • Deschutes River Ranch
  • Deschutes River Trail
  • Desert Skies
  • Dobbin Acres
  • Eaglenest
  • Eagles Landing
  • Eastside
  • Edgecliff
  • Elkai Woods
  • Elkhorn Estates
  • Empire Crossing
  • Empire Village
  • Enchantment
  • Fairview Acres
  • Fairway Crest Village
  • Falcon Ridge
  • Falcon Sky Estates
  • Fall River Estates
  • Firehall Condos
  • Foote Hills
  • Forest Acres
  • Forest Acres
  • Forest Meadows
  • Forum Meadows
  • Fountainbleau
  • Fox Hills
  • Franklin Crossing
  • Fremont Place
  • Frontage Park
  • Gallatin
  • Gardenside
  • Glacier View
  • Glenshire
  • Golden Mantle
  • Golden View Ranch
  • Goldenrain
  • Golfside Park
  • Gosney Meadows
  • Grandridge
  • Grandview
  • Hampton Park
  • Heights of Bend
  • Heritage Place
  • Hidden Glen
  • High Pointe
  • Highland Addition
  • HIllside Park
  • Holliday Park
  • Hollow Pine Estates
  • Homestead
  • Horseshoe Acres
  • Hunnell Hills
  • Janela Court
  • Kenwood Gardens
  • Kings Forest
  • Lane Knolls
  • Larkspur
  • Larkwood Estates
  • Laurel Springs
  • Lavacrest
  • Lazy River
  • Madison
  • Majestic
  • Marea
  • Marken Heights
  • Mason Estates
  • McCall Landing
  • Merrick
  • Metts
  • Mill View
  • Miller Heights
  • Mountain Gate
  • Mountain High
  • Mountain Peaks
  • Mountain Pine
  • Mountain River Estates
  • Mountain View
  • Mountain Village West
  • Mt Bachelor Village
  • Murphy
  • North Pilot Butte
  • North Wind Estates
  • Northcrest
  • Northpointe
  • Northwest Crossing
  • Nottingham Square
  • Oakview
  • Old Farm District
  • Orchard District
  • Orion Estates
  • Otter Run
  • Overtree Ranch
  • Pace Estates
  • Paladin Ranch
  • Parkview Terrace
  • Parkway Village
  • Paulina Peaks
  • Pence Place
  • Pettigrew Highlands
  • Pheasant Run
  • Pine West
  • Pinebrook
  • Pinelyn Park
  • Pines at Pilot Butte
  • Pinewood Country Estates
  • Plainview Estates South
  • Plainview Ranch
  • Pointswest
  • Ponderosa Cascade
  • Ponderosa Village
  • Ponderous Pines
  • Pronghorn
  • Prospect Pines
  • Providence
  • Quail Pine Estates
  • Renaissance Ridge
  • Ridgewater
  • Rimrock
  • Rimrock West
  • River Bend Estates
  • River Bluff Estates
  • River Canyon Estates
  • River Forest Acres
  • River Meadows
  • River Park Estates
  • River Rim
  • River Terrace
  • River West
  • River Wild
  • Riverpointe
  • Rivers Edge Village
  • Riverside
  • Rock Arbor Villas
  • Rockwood
  • Romaine Village
  • Royal Oak Estates
  • Royal Yeoman
  • Sandalwood
  • Selken
  • Sharadon
  • Sherman Park
  • Shevlin Center
  • Shevlin Commons
  • Shevlin Crest
  • Shevlin Pines
  • Shevlin Ridge
  • Shevlin Riverfront
  • Silver Lake Estates
  • Silverridge
  • Skyewest
  • Skyline
  • Skyview Terrace
  • Snow Creek Ranch
  • Snowberry Village
  • Somerset
  • South Briar
  • Southcrest
  • Southeast Bend
  • Southern Crossing
  • Southern Pines
  • Southpoint
  • Southwest Bend
  • Southwood
  • Spring River Acres
  • Stage Stop Meadows
  • Starwood
  • Steelhead Run
  • Stonebrook
  • Stonegate
  • Stonehaven
  • Stoneridge
  • Summer Meadows
  • Summit West
  • Sun Country Estates
  • Sun Mountain
  • Sundance Meadows
  • Sunflower Park
  • Sunpointe
  • Sunridge
  • Sunrise Village
  • Sunset View Estates
  • Suntree Village
  • Tamarack Park
  • Tanglewood
  • Terrango Glen
  • Tetherow
  • The Bridges
  • The Falls at Eagle Crest
  • The Highlands
  • The Pines
  • The Shire
  • The Willows
  • Three Pines
  • Tillicum Village
  • Timber Ridge
  • Top of Old Bend
  • Traditions East
  • Tri Peaks
  • Tumalo Heights
  • Tuscany Pines
  • Tyrion Sky
  • Upper Terrace
  • Valhalla Heights
  • Valley Ridge Acres
  • Valley View Estates
  • Vandevert Ranch
  • Views at Oak Tree
  • Village at Oak Tree
  • Virginia Park
  • West Hills
  • Westbrook Village
  • Westerly
  • Westridge
  • Whispering Pines Estates
  • Wiestoria
  • Winchester
  • Windance
  • Windsor Park
  • Winston Ranch
  • Wishing Well
  • Woodriver Village
  • Woodside Ranch
  • Wyndemere

Three or four years later, the Deschutes Irrigation and Power Company secured rights to 200,000 acres, which it put under irrigation. In 1904 the Pilot Butte Development Company platted the town and after 1909 growth became steady, when 300,000 acres of agricultural land were thrown open to entry under the homestead law. During the passing years timbermen filed on the great stand of pine on the nearby mountains, and wheat and lumber so attracted transportation interests that in 1911 the Oregon Trunk, subsidiary of the Great Northern, and the Deschutes Railroad, subsidiary of the Union Pacific, started a frenzied race to push their lines up the Deschutes River and on down into the Klamath Lake country.

Then timber became the source of fabulous wealth, as the flat cars began to roll along the newly-laid rails. Men whose names were prominent in the country's financial circles invested in Bend property. Tom Shevlin, noted Yale football player, came out in 1915 and built the Shevlin-Hixon sawmill, and the same year a start was made on the Brooks-Scanlon mill. With the coming of these industries, the original population of 21 persons (1900) increased to 536 by 1910, and ten years later, to 5,415. This was an increase of 910 percent, a record in the United States for the decade.

Bend is the center of an extensive recreational territory. More than 100 lakes and 300 miles of fishing streams lie within 50 miles of the city. There are swimming and boating on clear mountain lakes, horseback rides along forest trails, camping in primitive areas, golf on a mile-high course; there are lava cones, lava tunnels, lava forests; ice-caves and subterranean rivers; canyon depths and mountain heights.

  1. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project, Oregon: End of the Trail, American Guide Series, Binfords & Mort, Publishers, Portland, 1940.

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