Lamonta, Oregon

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Lamonta was a town located in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States, established in 1890, and abandoned in 1934.{{cite web|url=https://pamplinmedia.com/component/content/article?id=181214|work=Central Oregonian|location=Prineville, Oregon|title=Homesteading on the Grasslands|last=Austin|first=Lon|date=January 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818233738/https://pamplinmedia.com/component/content/article?id=181214|archive-date=August 18, 2019}}

Located along The Dalles-John Day stage route, Lamonta contained a post office, school, blacksmith, livery, hotel, stores, four saloons and a dance hall. Following a series of crop failures and droughts in the 1920s, Lamonta was mostly abandoned by 1934. By 1939, Lamonta was considered a ghost town.{{cite journal|journal=Soil Conservation|volume=5–6|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1939|location=Washington, D.C.|page=231|title=Rehabilitation of the Oregon Range}}

Original traces of town were burned down to make room for the new substation.{{Cite web |last=Grant |first=Rodney |title=Lamonta |url=http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/or/lamonta.html |website=Ghost Towns}}