Crook County, Oregon
West Powell Butte
West Powell Butte is a designated unincorporated community — one of the rural places Oregon’s land-use system treats as a defined settlement outside any city’s urban growth boundary. A state rulemaking now under way could change what can be built here.
- County
- Crook County
- Designation
- Designated unincorporated communityUnder OAR chapter 660, division 22 — one of the four divisions the current rulemaking proposes to amend.
- Nearest urban growth boundary
- Not recorded in the dataset.
- Record status
- Not individually verified. Compiled from the statewide dataset.
Community records come from our statewide map dataset, built from Oregon geographic data (retrieved July 2026). 272 communities are listed; distance to a boundary is recorded for 253 of them. We publish what the data says and correct it when someone who lives here tells us it’s wrong.
What’s being proposed
Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission is considering new rules for housing in unincorporated communities. The stated goal is more housing. The rules could also let counties raise density, expand community boundaries, and permit more intensive urban uses outside urban growth boundaries. Whether West Powell Butte is affected depends on decisions that haven’t been made yet — which is why comment now matters.
Comment on the record for West Powell Butte
Comments naming a specific place carry weight the generic ones don’t. This opens the letter builder with West Powell Butte, Crook County already filled in.
Write about West Powell ButteOn the map
We don’t have recorded coordinates for West Powell Butte yet. The statewide map shows every community, its designation, and its distance to the nearest boundary.
Open West Powell Butte on the statewide map