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- location
  
near Ogle Mountain

- elevation
  
1,847 ft (563 m)

Country
  
United States of America

- elevation
  
3,081 ft (939 m)

Mouth
  
Molalla River

Ogle Creek

- location
  
river mile 46 (km 74) on the Molalla, Clackamas County

Ogle Creek is a headwaters tributary, about 2 miles (3 km) long, of the Molalla River in the northwestern part of Oregon in the United States. From its source in the Cascade Range, it flows north from far-northern Marion County into Clackamas County near Ogle Mountain. From there it continues north into the river about 46 miles (74 km) above its confluence with the Willamette River.

Map of Ogle Creek, Oregon, USA

Ogle Creek was named for Bob Ogle, a Molalla prospector who found gold along the creek in 1862. An Oregon City Mining Company employee had found placer gold along the upper Molalla in 1860. Over the next 40 years, many others filed mining claims in the Molalla watershed. The biggest claimant, the Ogle Mountain Mining Company, operated the Ogle Mountain Mine between 1903 and 1915. Limited mining continued here until 1953, when Weyerhaeuser bought the land for timber.

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Ogle Creek Wikipedia