Everything about Christmas Valley Oregon totally explained
Christmas Valley is an
unincorporated community in
Lake County,
Oregon,
United States.
According to
Oregon Geographic Names, Christmas Valley, named after nearby Christmas Lake, was a real estate development started after
World War II, with a post office established in 1963 as a rural station of
Silver Lake.
Penn Phillips era
In 1961, developer
M. Penn Phillips laid out the townsite, including its fanciful holiday street names, a water system, a golf course, a lodge, rodeo grounds, an artificial lake—
Baert Lake—and the
Christmas Valley Airport. Phillips aggressively promoted the community in
California to young, would-be farmers and retirees, often misrepresenting the potential of the land as green and readily farmed, and quickly sold out the parcels. However, despite Phillips' claims that the community would soon have more than 5,000 residents, when purchasers got a look at what they'd purchased--primarily arid high desert land--few actually moved there, and the Phillips era is regarded as largely a scam.
Current community
Over the years, new growth has included taverns, restaurants, a library, health care facilities, a volunteer fire department, and emergency medical services. The population was 749 at the 2000
census.
Like much of Oregon's
high desert, temperatures can drop below freezing in the winter.
Both wind and solar energy are powering homes in Christmas Valley, especially in the many areas that are settled where no power lines exist. There are more than 250 days each year to support these alternative forms of energy production.
Christmas Valley is perhaps best known by off-road
all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts worldwide who spend vacation time at the nearby Christmas Valley Sand Dunes.
The community is served by the
North Lake School District, and is the center of an extensive
alfalfa hay growing area.
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