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Crow Butte, Washington, as seen from the west.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
Image taken May 24, 2005.
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Crow Butte ...
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Crow Butte lies on the Washington side of the Columbia River at River Mile (RM) 262. Just downstream is Alder Creek, where Lewis and Clark spent the night of April 24, 1806. Upstream lies Canoe Ridge, and across from Crow Butte on the Oregon side lies the site of the historic community of Castle Rock. Crow Butte is 28 miles downstream (west) of
Plymouth, Washington, and can be reached from Washington State Highway 14.
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Crow Butte and the John Day Dam ...
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The Crow Butte area was inundated by the waters of Lake Umatilla, the reservoir behind the John Day Dam.
Before flooding of the valley, Crow Butte was a part of the Washington shore. Golgotha Butte lies downstream with Artesian Coulee separating it from Crow Butte. Canoe Ridge lies upstream with Canoe Encampment Rapids at its base. After the flooding of the valley Crow Butte became an island. It now has a causeway connecting it to shore. Crow Butte Park (formerly Crow Butte State Park) is located on the island.
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Early Crow Butte ...
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From the Tacoma Public Library's "Washington Place Names" database (2019):
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"Crow Butte (T4N, R24E, Sec.5) ... William H. Crow and his family came to Benton County in the early 1900s filing for a homestead. Part of this land was platted in 1909 as the Warm Water Irrigated Tracts. The water from three artesian wells was 75 degrees F five degrees warmer than water from wells on nearby farms. With the construction of the John Day Dam on the Columbia River the area was flooded with the butte becoming an island. In 1978 was acquired by the state for Crow Butte State Park. Consisting of 1312 acres and 33,910 feet of freshwater shoreline the park offers picnic sites, a boat basin, boat ramps, a beach, and a campground. It is west of the community of Paterson and is the only state park in Benton County."
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Early Maps ...
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1906 Topographic map detail, showing Crow Butte and Canoe Ridge, Washington, and Castle Rock, Oregon.
Also showing the Columbia River and the "Canoe Encampment Rapids".
Original map 1:125,000 "Blalock Island Quadrangle", Washington-Oregon, U.S. Geological Survey, 1906 edition.
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Crow Butte Park ...
(Crow Butte State Park)
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Crow Butte Park (formerly Crow Butte State Park) is a 397-acre camping, day-use, and boating park administered by the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
In August 2002 Crow Butte State Park closed to the public due to budget cuts. It re-opened as Crow Butte Park in August 2003, with a private manager. The land is owned by the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
Crow Butte, along with three other eastern Washington state parks which closed in 2002, were on land leased to the State of Washington by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. The Corps built the parks in the 1960s and 1970s as
compensation for recreational opportunities that were lost when the Snake
and Columbia rivers were dammed. It then handed them over to the state
to operate.
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Views ...
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Crow Butte, Washington, as seen from Tower Road, Oregon.
Image taken September 24, 2004.
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Crow Butte Park, Washington.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
Image taken May 24, 2005.
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- Castle Rock to Crown Butte Ferries ...
- Crow Butte Treaty Fishing Access Site ...
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Castle Rock to Crow Butte Ferries ...
Crow Butte Treaty Fishing Access Site, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission ...
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All four Columbia River treaty tribes enjoy fishing rights along the Columbia from the Bonneville to McNary dams. This 147-mile stretch of the river is called Zone 6.
The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) operates and maintains 31 fishing sites (2015, Note: the website map only shows 30 sites) in Zone 6. These sites were set aside by Congress to provide fishing locations to Indian fishers whose traditional fishing grounds were inundated behind dams.
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"For fisheries management purposes, the 292-mile stretch of the Columbia River that creates the border between Washington and Oregon is divided into six zones. Zones 1-5 are between the mouth of the river and Bonneville Dam, a distance of 145 miles. Oregon and Washington manage the commercial fisheries that occur in these zones. Zone 6 is an exclusive treaty Indian commercial fishing area. This exclusion is for commercial fishing only. Non-commercial sports fishers may still fish in this stretch of the river."
[Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission website, 2016]
The Zone 6 sites include
19 Treaty Fishing Access sites
(Bonneville,
Wyeth,
White Salmon,
Stanley Rock,
Lyle,
Dallesport,
Celilo,
Maryhill,
Rufus,
Preacher's Eddy,
North Shore,
LePage Park,
Pasture Point,
Roosevelt Park,
Pine Creek,
Threemile Canyon,
Alderdale,
Crow Butte,
and Faler Road),
five "In-lieu" sites
(Cascade Locks,
Wind River,
Cooks,
Underwood, and
Lone Pine),
two "Shared-use" sites
(Avery and
Sundale Park, for both Tribal use and Public use),
and four "Unimproved" sites with no services
(Goodnoe,
Rock Creek,
Moonay,
and
Aldercreek).
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, October 20, 1805 ...
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