Wasco County Email Format
Government AdministrationOregon, United States51-200 Employees
Wasco County, in Oregon was established in 1854 and was named for the Wasco (or Wascopam) Indian tribe. The Dalles is the County seat. Now the trading hub of north-central Oregon, The Dalles gained earlier fame as the town at the end of the Oregon Trail. Thousands of years before that, Native Americans etched pictograph on rocks overlooking the Columbia River in this area.