Starkey post office was established in 1879 and named after the first postmaster, John Starkey, who settled in the area in the 1870s.[2] The originally proposed name, Daleyville, was rejected.[3] The post office closed in 1935.[2]
Starkey was the headquarters of the
Mount Emily Lumber Company.[4] The population was 50 in 1919 and 75 in 1931.[4] The town went through a significant population boom by 1940 because of a portable logging operation,[5] but the townsite was liquidated by the
Valsetz Lumber Company in 1955.[2] Today Starkey has a store and a cemetery.[citation needed]
^Barklow, Irene (1987). From Trails to Rails: The Post Offices, Stage Stops and Wagon Roads of Union County.
Enterprise, Oregon: Enchantments Publishing of Oregon. p. 239.
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