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About Us :: County InformationSherman Co., OregonCounty CapsuleSherman County is located in North Central Oregon and is supported by the agriculture industry; predominantly wheat, barley and cattle. Covering 831 square miles, the county had an estimated 2006 population of 1,699, compared with 1,934 in 2000. Sherman County, created in 1889 from the northeast corner of Wasco County, was named for General William Tecumseh Sherman. It was separated from Wasco County as much for its unique geological setting as for the settlers' interest in having their own political process. The rolling hills are bordered by the deep canyons of the John Day River to the east, Columbia River on the North and the Deschutes River and Buck Hollow to the west and south. The county was settled in 1870s by stockmen; by 1881 the homesteaders arrived, permanently changing the area by plowing and fencing the tall grass. Since that time, the county has been a wheat -growing area with miles of grain on rolling hills of wind-blown glacial silt. The total absence of timber in the county exemplifies the true meaning of the "wide open spaces of the west." It has pastoral landscape with spectacular views of canyons and rivers with mountain silhouetted in the distance. Recreation abounds in Sherman County from the famous scenic fly-fishing and white water rafting stream of the Deschutes River to water-skiing, wind-surfing, boating, fishing and rafting on the John Day and Columbia rivers. Sherman County leads the state in soil and water conservation subsidies under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), but there are no prime or unique farmlands identified in the county under state and federal definitions because of scarce rainfall and the lack of irrigation. Dry land wheat farming remains the economic foundation of the county and continues to prosper despite prolonged drought conditions during the early 1990s. At $23,599, 2004 per capita personal income in Sherman County was below state and national figures of $30,561, and $35,041, respectively. Points of InterestHistoric county courthouse
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