Ordnance is a ghost town in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States, southwest of Hermiston on Interstate 84/U.S. Route 30, near the intersection with Interstate 82. In 1941, the United States Department of War commissioned the establishment of Umatilla Ordnance Depot in northern Umatilla County; it was later renamed Umatilla Army Depot and then Umatilla Chemical Depot. The town was named after the depot, and Ordnance post office was established in 1943. Due to gradual reductions in military funding for the area after World War II, by the 1960s, Ordnance was no longer a community.

See also

List of ghost towns in Oregon

References

External links

Historic photo of the Umatilla Ordnance Depot from the Oregon Historical Society

History of the depot from the Center for Columbia River History

Former populated places in Umatilla County, Oregon

Ghost towns in Oregon

1943 establishments in Oregon

Ordnance, Oregon