Five miles downstream of Biggs Junction is the mouth of the Deschutes River. Seven miles upstream is the John Day Dam.
Three miles upstream of Biggs is the now-gone community of Grant and five miles upstream is the town of Rufus. It should not be confused with Spanish Hollow post office, which was at the town of Wasco." The original name of the OR&N station was Spanish Hollow. Biggs post office operated from June 1886 to July 1954. The small, local community is known as Biggs Junction because this is where US-97, running north and south, makes an important intersection with I-84. Biggs, who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, May 12, 1831, and who came to Sherman County in 1880. It was named for a nearby landowner, W.H. Biggs is a station on the Union Pacific Railroad main line at what was the junction with the now-abandoned branch south into Sherman County. The Sam Hill Memorial Bridge crosses the Columbia River from Biggs Junction to Maryhill, Washington.Īccording to "Oregon Geographic Names" (McArthur and McArthur, 2003): Biggs Junction became the community which developed at the mouth of the Spanish Hollow canyon, where first the railway and then U.S. This is also the location of the junction of the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad and its branch south into Sherman County, Oregon.īiggs is a station on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad. Spanish Hollow canyon can be seen heading south into the hills.īiggs and Biggs Junction, Oregon, are located on the south bank of the Columbia River at River Mile (RM) 208, where Interstate 84 (U.S. īiggs Junction, Oregon, as seen Maryhill Museum, Washington. Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later" The Columbia River - Biggs and Biggs Junction, Oregon
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