Description

5 miles long; on the Umpqua National Forest, flows north from near Red Butte to enter the Little River; Secs 12,13,24,23,26,25&36, T27S, R2W, Willamette Meridian

History

Named for the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, nicknamed the “Triple Nickles,” a World War II African American unit of the U.S. Army that was stationed in Pendleton in 1945

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