Pinehurst, Oregon | |
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Coordinates: 42°07′04″N 122°21′58″W / 42.11778°N 122.36611°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Oregon |
County | Jackson |
Elevation | 3,373 ft (1,028 m) |
Time zone | UTC-8 ( Pacific (PST)) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
Area code(s) | 458 and 541 |
GNIS feature ID | 1125418 [1] |
Coordinates and elevation from Geographic Names Information System [1] |
Pinehurst is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 66 (OR 66) about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Ashland. [1] It is along Jenny Creek near Round Prairie between the Siskiyou Mountains and the foothills of the Cascade Range. [2]
Pinehurst was one of the small sawmill towns along an early stagecoach and wagon freight route between the Rogue Valley and the Klamath Basin. [3] This road, also known as the Green Springs Highway, was the original route of the Applegate Trail. [4] The name "Pinehurst" comes from the word " pine" and the Old English word hurst, meaning woods. [5] Pinehurst is named for its location in a Ponderosa Pine belt. [3] [6]
In 1878, there was a post office in the Pinehurst area named "Pioneer"; it closed in 1882. [5] The nearby post office named "Shake" established in 1886 was moved and renamed "Pinehurst" in 1911. [5] In 1915, Pinehurst had a population of 20 and a public school. [6] By 1940, Pinehurst had a population of ten. [3] [6] An inn at the town was formerly the supper stop on the Greyhound bus route between Ashland and Klamath Falls until it burned down. [6] As of 1990 the only structure in the community was a two-story log structure dating to the 1920s. [6] [7] The log building was a roadhouse that was built when OR 66 bypassed the former Applegate Trail route. [8] As of 2010, the building was a bed and breakfast—the Historic Pinehurst Inn—but has since closed. [4]
The original stagecoach stop was the 1904 ranch house at Green Springs Box R Ranch in the Pinehurst area. [9] The owners sold part of the property in 2016 to New Frontier Ranch, which offers guest accommodations. [9]
The nearby Buckhorn Mineral Springs Resort is a historic mineral spa on the National Register of Historic Places. [10]
Pinehurst School, which is about two miles west of the community, in an area known as Lincoln, is the only school in the Pinehurst School District. [11] [12] It serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade. [11] The 1908 school building is recognized by Jackson County as having primary historical significance. [12] [13]
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F (22.0 °C). According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Pinehurst has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. [14]