Standing in the Gap for Oregon

Deschutes County, Oregon. Charlotte Lake The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; Isaiah 35:1 Just to the west of Crook County is Deschutes, which has the distinction of being the youngest county in the state, created in 1916, and is also the fastest growing. The population has exploded to nearly 200,000 in recent years, and the county is now considered the political and economic center of Central Oregon. Bend is the county seat. The other incorporated towns are La Pine, Redmond, and Sisters. You can read more about Deschutes County history here , here, and here . Deschutes County, OR A recent letter in the Bend Bulletin pointed out that the county has had three commissioner positions since 1971 when Deschutes County had about 30,000 population. It now has over 200,000 but is still represented by three commissioners, spreading representation pretty thin. The county has already made changes in the county board, ...

Deschutes County, Oregon The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; Isaiah 35:1 Deschutes County in the southwestern corner of the North Central Region of the state is the newest county in the state, sectioned off from Crook County in 1916. It was named after the river that runs through it, which was named after French-Canadian fur trappers that first explored the region in the early 1800s. The Deschutes River begins in the Cascade Mountains northwest of La Pine, then flows southward into a couple of reservoirs. From the Wickiup Reservoir, the river goes northeast through Sunriver to the city of Bend. From there it goes northward and is joined by the Metolius and Crooked Rivers, forms one of the boundaries of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, and finally empties into the Columbia River a few miles southwest of Biggs Junction. Deschutes County, Oregon The county seat of Deschutes County is Bend, and while Crook Count...

Bend, Oregon He will also go before Him in  the  spirit and power  of  Elijah, ‘to  turn   the   hearts   of   the   fathers  to  the  children,’ and  the  disobedient to  the  wisdom  of   the  just, to make ready a people prepared for  the  Lord .  Luke 1:17     Deschutes County was created in 1916 out of part of Crook County, and was the last of the Oregon counties to be formed. Now the fastest growing county in the state, it is the hub of central Oregon. Bend is the county seat.   After the Native Americans, fur traders and mountain men were the first to explore the area. There is a stone carved in 1813 with the names of two men from the American Fur Trading Company that is housed by the Deschutes County Historical Society. In 1825-26 explorer and fur trader  Peter Skene Ogden was in the area. Later, Nathaniel Wyeth led a party of beaver trappers thr...