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Kinzua, Oregon

Field	Value
official_name	Kinzua, Oregon
settlement_type	Ghost town
image_skyline	Kinzua Golf Club clubhouse.jpg
imagesize	300px
image_caption	Clubhouse of the Kinzua Hills Golf Club in 2011
pushpin_map	USA Oregon
pushpin_label_position
pushpin_map_caption	Location within the state of Oregon
named_for	Kinzua, Pennsylvania
{{cite book	last	McArthur
first	Lewis A.
author-link	Lewis A. McArthur
author2	Lewis L. McArthur
author2-link	Lewis L. McArthur
title	Oregon Geographic Names
orig-year	1928
edition	7th
year	2003
publisher	Oregon Historical Society Press
location	Portland, Oregon
isbn	0-87595-277-1
page	539}}
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Oregon
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Wheeler
coordinates
timezone	PST
utc_offset	-8
timezone_DST	PDT
utc_offset_DST	-7
elevation_ft	3402
postal_code_type	ZIP code
postal_code	97830 (Fossil Post Office box)
area_code	541
footnotes	Coordinates and elevation from United States Geological Survey

|author-link= Lewis A. McArthur |author2-link=Lewis L. McArthur |orig-year= 1928

Kinzua is a ghost town or former town site in Wheeler County, Oregon, United States. It existed as a company town from 1927 to 1978. Kinzua lies directly east of Fossil and uses a Fossil mailing address.

The community was founded by Pennsylvania lumberman Edward D. Wetmore to support the sawmill operations of the Kinzua Pine Mills Company, that was named for the Kinzua Township in Pennsylvania. At one time Kinzua was the most populous community in Wheeler County and 330 people worked at the mill.

In 1929, the company built the Condon, Kinzua & Southern Railroad to ship forest products from the mill to Condon, 30 mi to the north. From Condon a Union Pacific feeder line went north to Arlington on the Columbia River. Through 1952, the Kinzua & Southern carried mail and passengers via a self-powered rail bus called "The Goose". The line closed entirely in 1976.

In 1965, Kinzua included 125 homes, a community hall, church, library, store, and the golf course. When the mill closed in 1978, the buildings were removed and the townsite was planted with trees, mainly ponderosa pine. The six-hole golf course of the Kinzua Hills Golf Club occupies part of the site. The nearby Kinzua landing strip and Kinzua Mountain retain the name as well.

References

{{cite gnis
(April 24, 2009). "Kinzua Hills Golf Club". Pasture Golf.
Thomas R. Cox, ''The Lumberman's Frontier'' (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2010), 334–38
"Condon Kinzua & Southern Railroad Kinzua Pine Mills". High Desert Rails.
Beckham, Stephen Dow. (2000). "John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Rocks & Hard Places:Chapter 6, "Economic Development"". National Park Service.
Culp, Edwin D.. (1978). "Stations West, The Story of the Oregon Railways". Bonanza Books.
Beckham, Stephen Dow. (2000). "John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Rocks & Hard Places: Chapter 5, "Transportation"". National Park Service.

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