Oregon Route 413 is an Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

 state highway

State highway

State highway, state road or state route can refer to one of three related concepts, two of them related to a state or provincial government in a country that is divided into states or provinces :#A...

 running from Cornucopia

Cornucopia, Oregon

Cornucopia is a ghost town of the gold mining boom of the 1880s in Eastern Oregon, United States. The name of the town was chosen since it meant "Horn of Plenty". Gold was discovered in Cornucopia in 1884. The town was platted in 1886. It is located east of Baker City high in the mountains of Pine...

 to Halfway

Halfway, Oregon

Halfway is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. This town took its name from the location of its post office, on the Alexander Stalker ranch, half way between Pine and Cornucopia...

. OR 413 is known as the Halfway-Cornucopia Highway No. 413 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is 11.45 miles (18.4 km) long and runs northwest to southeast, entirely within Baker County

Baker County, Oregon

Baker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is included in the 8 county definition of Eastern Oregon. It is named for Edward Dickinson Baker, a senator from Oregon who was killed at Ball's Bluff, a battle of the Civil War in Virginia in 1861. It was split from the eastern part...

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OR 413 was established in 2003 as part of Oregon's project to assign route numbers to highways that previously were not assigned, and, as of July 2010, was unsigned.

Route description

OR 413 begins at Elk Creek in Cornucopia and heads southeast through Carson

Carson, Oregon

Carson is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 413 about five miles northwest of Halfway.In 1870 Tom Corson settled in the area on a tributary of Pine Creek. His neighbors pronounced his name "Carson" and named the tributary and a sawmill on the creek...

 and Jimtown

Jimtown, Oregon

Jimtown is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States. It is located about two miles northwest of Halfway, on Oregon Route 413....

 to Halfway

Halfway, Oregon

Halfway is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. This town took its name from the location of its post office, on the Alexander Stalker ranch, half way between Pine and Cornucopia...

, where it ends at an intersection with OR 414 and OR 86 Spur. Its northernmost 6 miles (9.7 km) are unpaved and narrow.

History

The Halfway-Cornucopia Highway was established in 1935 with the division of the old Baker-Cornucopia Highway into the Baker-Halfway Highway No. 12 and the Halfway-Cornucopia Highway. OR 413 was assigned to the Halfway-Cornucopia Highway in 2003.

Major intersections

Milepost	City	Intersection
0.00	Cornucopia Cornucopia, Oregon Cornucopia is a ghost town of the gold mining boom of the 1880s in Eastern Oregon, United States. The name of the town was chosen since it meant "Horn of Plenty". Gold was discovered in Cornucopia in 1884. The town was platted in 1886. It is located east of Baker City high in the mountains of Pine...	Begin Route
11.45	Halfway Halfway, Oregon Halfway is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. This town took its name from the location of its post office, on the Alexander Stalker ranch, half way between Pine and Cornucopia...	OR 414 and OR 86 Spur