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Incorporated in 1887, the City of Heppner is the seat of Morrow County, and the largest of three communities in the Willow Creek Valley. The city lies about fifty miles south of the Columbia River, in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in Northeast Oregon. The community was originally called Standsbury Flat, for George W. Standsbury, one of the 1st white settlers in the area. The city was later renamed in honor of Henry Heppner, a Jewish pioneer who opened the 1st general store their in 1873.

 

 

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