Everything about The South Umpqua River totally explained
The
South Umpqua River is a tributary of the
Umpqua River, approximately long, in southwestern
Oregon in the
United States. It drains part of the
Cascade Range east of
Roseburg. The river passes through a remote canyon in its upper reaches then emerges in the populated
South Umpqua Valley near Roseburg.
Description
It rises in the high Cascades north of
Fish Mountain, formed by the confluence of two short forks in eastern
Douglas County approximately northwest of
Crater Lake. It flows generally southwest through a remote canyon in the
Umpqua National Forest to
Tiller, then west past
Milo and
Days Creek. It emerges into the South Umpqua Valley at
Canyonville, passing under
Interstate 5 and flowing north along highway past
Tri-City,
Myrtle Creek, and
Roseburg. It joins the
North Umpqua from the south to form the Umpqua approximately northwest of Roseburg.
It receives
Cow Creek from the south approximately southwest of Tri-City.
In the early 19th century, the lower river through the South Umpqua Valley was inhabited by several bands of the
Coquille, including the Upper Umpqua and the Cow Creek bands (who ceded their lands to the U.S. government in the 1854
Kalapuya Treaty).
Beginning in the 1820s, hunters and trappers of the
Hudson's Bay Company began using the South Umpqua River valley to move along what became known as the
Siskiyou Trail. The Siskiyou Trail was based on existing Native American footpaths, and connected the Pacific Northwest, with California's
Central Valley. In 1846, spurred by the desire to create a safer trail for emigrants to use to reach the
Willamette Valley,
Jesse and
Lindsay Applegate,
Levi Scott, and 13 other companions explored a new route through the valley that connected the southern
Willamette Valley with
Goose Lake in
Northern California; there, what became known as the
Applegate Trail, connected with the northmost branch of the
California Trail. The original Siskiyou Trail route through the valley is closely followed today by Interstate 5.
The valley became an important
timber-producing region in the 20th century.
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