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Lostine is a city in Wallowa County, Oregon, incorporated in 1903, with a 2020 census population of 241 and 102 households, and its motto is 'A stop and a smile away.'

Lostine was named after a place of the same name in Cherokee County, Kansas, that served as the site of a short-lived farmers' post office in the 1870s.

Lostine, Oregon, established a post office in August 1878, with W.R. Laughlin as the first postmaster, and the town was platted in 1884.

Lostine lies along Oregon Route 82 about halfway between Wallowa and Enterprise, near the Lostine River, a tributary of the Wallowa River, east of the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon.

The city covers about 0.30 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of 3,373 feet, and it uses ZIP code 97857.

Lostine has a humid continental climate, with large seasonal temperature differences, warm to hot and often humid summers, and cold, sometimes severely cold, winters.

The 2020 census gave Lostine a median age of 44.1 years, with 23.7 percent of residents under 18 and 27.4 percent aged 65 or older, and counted all of its residents as living in rural areas.

Lostine's population has stayed near 200 to 260 in every census since 1910, rising from 213 in 2010 to 241 in 2020.

The historic Lostine Tavern, located at 125 Highway 82, is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places under its historic name 'Lostine Pharmacy.'

Lostine's fire station, city hall, and library share a building, and the city is in the Wallowa School District 12.