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Kinzua

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท OREGON

A historical populated place in Wheeler County, Oregon, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name
Kinzua
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
Oregon
County
Wheeler County
USGS Map
Kinzua
Coordinates
44.9895776, -120.0589094
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GNIS Feature ID
1158308

Names and historical notes

Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.

GNIS description

Kinzua was a company mill town in which it and company property has been removed and abandoned.

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 1158308. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.

GNIS citation text may identify a source series rather than a specific page. It is reproduced below without implying that its underlying documents were inspected.

  • Map U.S. Geological Survey 1981-12-31 00:00:00 Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981) Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files.

GNIS source datasets and documentation

Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.