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Hermiston is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Its population of 19,973 makes it the largest city in Eastern Oregon. Hermiston is the largest, and fastest-growing, city in the Hermiston-Pendleton Micropolitan Statistical Area, the eighth largest Core Based Statistical Area in Oregon with a comprehensive population of 92,261 at the 2020 census. Hermiston sits close the junction of I-82 and I-84, and is 7 miles south of the Columbia River, Lake Wallula, and the McNary Dam. The Hermiston Place has become a hub for logistics and data middle activity due to the proximity of the I-82 and I-84 interchange, Pacific Northwest fiber optic backbone, and low capability costs. The city is furthermore known for its watermelons, which are part of its branding.

The historic inhabitants of the area were the original Umatilla, Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Columbia Indians, descendants of peoples who lived in this area for thousands of years. The antique European settlers conventional a mission close Pendleton in 1847. The territorial organization organized Umatilla County in 1862 from the larger Wasco County. On July 10, 1907, the town of Hermiston was incorporated. The indigenous railroad station was named Maxwell, likely after a contemporary official at the railroad company. Colonel J. F. McNaught, an before settler in the region, later named it Hermiston from Robert Louis Stevenson’s unfinished novel Weir of Hermiston.

The greater Hermiston region began to look irrigated agriculture in 1908, with the success of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Umatilla Basin Project in the form of Cold Springs Reservoir. The region maxim modest deposit until the outbreak of World War II, when the Umatilla Army Depot was constructed, causing Hermiston’s population to hop from 803 at the 1940 US Census to 3,804 in 1950. The region continued to experience modest growth for the adjacent several decades until the 1970’s, when low capacity costs coupled taking into account the build up of center-pivot irrigation resulted in a significant move ahead in agricultural acreage count to potato production. The develop of potato production coincided behind the onslaught of large potato presidency plants by Lamb-Weston and Simplot, focusing upon frozen potato products. The joined economic onslaught drove Hermiston’s population to approximately double from 4,893 in 1970 to 9,408 by 1980. The 1990’s brought further large employment developments to the Hermiston region in the form of Two Rivers Correctional Institution, a Wal-Mart Distribution Center, expansion of the Union Pacific Hinkle Rail Yard, and dawn of the Umatilla Army Depot’s Chemical Weapon Incineration process. The 2000’s have seen continued lump and diversification of the regional economy as Hermiston has grown to a population of 19,354 at the 2020 Census and has become a regional center for advertisement and professional services.