Starkey is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Union County,
Oregon
Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...
, United States, about 26 miles southwest of
La Grande.
It is about two miles south of
Oregon Route 244 in the
Blue Mountains.
Starkey post office was established in 1879 and named after the first postmaster, John Starkey, who settled in the area in the 1870s.
The originally proposed name, Daleyville, was rejected.
The post office closed in 1935.
[
Starkey was the headquarters of the Mount Emily Lumber Company.][ The town went through a significant population boom by 1940 because of a portable logging operation,][ Today Starkey has a store and a cemetery.
]
References
Company towns in Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Union County, Oregon
1879 establishments in Oregon
Populated places established in 1879
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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