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History · Green Meadows

Half of Green Meadows’ homes were built after 1973

Most of Green Meadows was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1973. Below: maps from 1935 on.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Green Meadows’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Green Meadows are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Green Meadows, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Green Meadows yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Green Meadows is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. It was first listed as a CDP following the 2010 census. As of the 2020 census, Green Meadows had a population of 675. The CDP is in central Umatilla County along U.S. Route 395, 5 miles (8 km) south of Pendleton, the county seat. It is on the east side of the valley of McKay Creek, a north-flowing tributary of the Umatilla River, which in turn is a west-flowing tributary of the Columbia.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Green Meadows, 1923 to 1935

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1923Post officeThe McKay Dam post office opens
  3. 1925Post officeThe McKay Dam post office closes
  4. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Green Meadows on the map, 1935 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Green Meadows. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Green Meadows on the 1935 USGS mapGreen Meadows on the 1966 USGS mapGreen Meadows on the 1983 USGS map1935Pendleton sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Green Meadows.

Famous people

Famous people close to Green Meadows

Nobody well known was born in Green Meadows itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Gordon H. SmithAmerican politician · b. 1952
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George Buck FlowerAmerican actor and director · b. 1937
Dave CockrumAmerican comics artist · b. 1943
George HackathorneActor · b. 1896
Elaine MilesAmerican actress · b. 1960
Frances Moore LappéAmerican researcher and author · b. 1944
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Another post office, McKay Dam, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
McKay Dam Post Officepost office

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.