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Ukiah is a city in Umatilla County in northeastern Oregon, incorporated in 1969.

The 2020 census counted 159 residents in Ukiah, down from 186 in 2010 and 255 in 2000.

There were 78 households in Ukiah at the 2020 census.

The Camas Land Company platted Ukiah in August 1890, and E. B. Gambee, who had moved from Ukiah, California, to Oregon in 1881, suggested the name.

A post office opened in Ukiah in September 1890, with DeWitt C. Whiting as its first postmaster.

Ukiah sits at the intersection of U.S. Route 395 and Oregon Route 244, about 45 miles south of Pendleton and about 50 miles southwest of La Grande.

The city lies along Camas Creek, which flows west from the Blue Mountains through the Umatilla National Forest and is a tributary of the North Fork John Day River.

Ukiah covers 0.24 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 3,356 feet, and is listed with ZIP code 97880.

Ukiah is tied with Seneca, in Grant County, for the coldest official temperature in Oregon, dropping to minus 54 degrees Fahrenheit on February 9, 1933.

The National Weather Service credits Seneca with the record because its minus 54 degree reading came a day later, on February 10, 1933.