Talk:Calapooya Mountains

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It appears to me that the Calapooya Divide and the Calapooya Mountains are two different entities that touch each other at the east end of the divide but run in different directions. Together they form a rough Y-shape with the tail of the Y ending at or near the Douglas–Klamath county line. The divide, the southern arm of the Y, runs east–west along the Lane–Douglas county border northeast of Roseburg. The Calapooya Mountains run southeast–northwest from the Cascade Range to near Oakridge. Page 265 of Loy's Atlas of Oregon shows these features pretty clearly. An on-line map of the Bohemia Mining District shows the difference clearly too, although the mining map and the Loy map are not identical. Scott's Peak appears to be one of the highest peaks in the divide, but the high peaks in the Calapooya Mountains are much higher. McArthur on p. 137 of Oregon Geographic Names says, "Calapooya Mountains join the Cascade Range at Cowhorn Mountain, with an elevation of 7,666 feet in the northeast corner of Douglas County." I'd like to adjust the article accordingly, but since this involves making fairly radical changes to the existing article, I thought I'd mention them here first. Finetooth (talk) 17:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think the changes will be fine, it was unsourced to begin with and hasn't really grown since then. If the divide is separate enough, I'd even split that part off into a new article. But I don't think anyone is too tied to the original. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:21, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not sure what peak is the highest in the Calapooya Mountains, but it’s definitely not the Scott Mountain near Roseburg. That mountain isn’t even the tallest peak in its local neighborhood. There is another Scott Mountain north of McKenzie Bridge that is 6,086 ft high. It might be candidate for highest peak if it’s actually in the Calapooya range; if it is, it would be at the northeastern corner of the range. I didn’t take out the text that says Scott Mountain near Roseburg is the highest peak because there are several on-line sources that say it is, but they are clearly wrong. At the geo-point USGS shows the “Calapooya Mountains” on its topographic maps, virtually ever peak is higher than Scott Mountain northeast of Roseburg.--Orygun (talk) 23:20, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]