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Welcome to Ortley ...

So far, we found very little information about Ortley. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Ortley to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Ortley, please Contact Us.

Ortley would have been located within present day Wasco County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Ortley, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1912.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Ortley is 1,820 feet [555 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Ortley was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Ortley was located: 541 & 458<4>

Communities Also Named Ortley ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Ortley - they are located in New Jersey and South Dakota.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Ortley.

Communities near Ortley ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Ortley.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Ortley. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Ortley.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Ortley. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Ortley.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Ortley. See our Newspapers Page for Ortley.

Adding Ortley to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Ortley in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Ortley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

X2X - From that list, the Ortley post office opened in 1912.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Ortley.

The official website for Wasco County: www.co.wasco.or.us/

The official website for State of Oregon: https://www.oregon.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Ortley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Oregon's counties, including Wasco, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Ortley - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 541 code has been Overlayed with the 458 area code. New phone numbers in the Ortley area will be assigned with one of these codes: 541 or 458. As a result, placing a call in the Ortley area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<7>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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