Cazadero is a historic locale in Clackamas County, Oregon

Clackamas County, Oregon

Clackamas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The county was named after the Native Americans living in the area, the Clackamas Indians, who were part of the Chinookan people. As of 2010, the population was 375,992...

, United States. Cazadero was a station on the Estacada

Estacada, Oregon

Estacada is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, about 30 miles southeast of Portland. The population was 2,695 at the 2010 census. -History:The Estacada post office opened in February 1904 and the city was incorporated in May 1905...

 line of the Portland Electric Power Company (PEPCO) interurban railway, near where power plant of the PEPCO-owned Cazadero Dam

Cazadero Dam

Cazadero Dam was a dam on the Clackamas River, near the city of Estacada, Oregon, United States. It was destroyed by flood in 1965 and replaced with the Faraday Dam.-External links:* from University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections...

 was located on the Clackamas River

Clackamas River

The Clackamas River is an approximately tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, in the United States. As it drains an area of about , the Clackamas passes through mostly forested and rugged mountainous terrain in its upper reaches, and passes through agricultural and urban areas...

. Cazadero was the end of the interurban

Interurban

An interurban, also called a radial railway in parts of Canada, is a type of electric passenger railroad; in short a hybrid between tram and train. Interurbans enjoyed widespread popularity in the first three decades of the twentieth century in North America. Until the early 1920s, most roads were...

 for many years until PEPCO eventually developed the line further up the river. The station was named by the original promoters of the line, likely after Cazadero, California

Cazadero, California

Cazadero is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in western Sonoma County, California, United States with a population of 354 as of the 2010 Census. Nearby towns include Jenner, Annapolis, Stewart's Point, Duncans Mills, Villa Grande, Rio Nido, Guerneville, Monte Rio, and The Sea Ranch...

. Cazadero is a Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 word meaning "a place for the pursuit of game". Cazadero post office operated from 1904–1918; it was located southeast of Cazadero station, near what is now Oregon Route 224 at 45.2623429°N 122.2961949°W.