Weston

History

Weston was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 19, 1878. Weston is best known for its connection with novelist Nard Jones (1904–1972), who lived in the city with his parents between 1919 and 1927, and whose first novel Oregon Detour was set in an Oregon town of 600 inhabitants called "Creston". When his novel, written according to the tenets of the New Realism literary movement (established years before by Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis and others) was published in 1930, many of the residents were convinced that his characters were based on local inhabitants, and considered the work a slander against the town. While the legend that Jones was sued and ran out of town for his book is not true, members of the town made an effort to locally suppress access to the book: copies of the novel were stolen from the local library; after the novel became the subject for a high school student's book report, his English teacher removed the book from both the reading list and the high school library. According to George Venn, local literary historian, even in the 1980s, "trying to figure out or trying to remember who the 'real people' in the novel is still a local pastime."

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Weston is located at the foot of the Blue Mountains, on Pine Creek. This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above . According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Weston has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Red-tailed Hawk

  Buteo jamaicensis (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves
  463
• American Kestrel

  Falco sparverius Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  434
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  404
• Black-billed Magpie

  Pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823) · Aves
  387
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  332
• Bull Pine

  Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C.Lawson · Pinopsida
  332
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  329
• Northern Flicker

  Colaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  272

Largest nearby schools

• McLoughlin High School
  High · Milton-Freewater · 491 students · 17.5:1 ratio
• Gib Olinger Elementary School
  Elementary · Milton-Freewater · 478 students · 13.7:1 ratio
• Central Middle School
  Middle · Milton-Freewater · 386 students · 16.8:1 ratio
• Weston-McEwen High School
  High · Athena · 215 students · 13.4:1 ratio
• Weston Middle School
  Middle · Weston · 188 students · 13.4:1 ratio
• Athena Elementary School
  Elementary · Athena · 139 students · 12.6:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.8000000000000003 — 2026-02-02
  5 km ESE of Benton City, Washington
• M 2.84 — 2024-04-20
  4 km S of Richland, Washington
• M 2.73 — 2023-05-11
  6 km NNW of Summerville, Oregon
• M 2.67 — 2021-03-23
  12 km WSW of Lostine, Oregon
• M 2.59 — 2017-11-15
  13 km SW of Wallowa, Oregon
• M 2.85 — 2017-02-15
  3 km WSW of Adams, Oregon