Nansene, Oregon

{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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Nansene is an unincorporated community in Wasco County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies along Long Hollow Market Road southeast of the small city of Dufur. Between Nansene and Dufur, the road crosses Dry Creek, a tributary of Fifteenmile Creek.{{cite book|title=Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer|publisher=DeLorme|location=Yarmouth, Maine|edition=7th|year=2008|pages=31, 72|isbn=978-0-89933-347-2}}

The name Nansene probably derives from a Native American{{clarify|reason="Native American" is not a language. This should indicate which language is the word from.|date=July 2023}} word describing Fifteenmile Creek.{{cite book | last = McArthur | first = Lewis A. | author-link = Lewis A. McArthur |author2=Lewis L. McArthur |author2-link=Lewis L. McArthur | title = Oregon Geographic Names | origyear = 1928 | edition = 7th| year = 2003 | publisher = Oregon Historical Society Press | location = Portland, Oregon| isbn = 0-87595-277-1 | page = 689}} A post office operated in Nansene from 1880 through 1894.

In the late 19th century, children in the community attended Nansene School. A school report published in The Dalles Weekly Chronicle in 1898 mentions enrollment of 5 boys and 14 girls for a total of 19 students.{{cite web|title=The Dalles Weekly Chronicle|work=Historic Oregon Newspapers|publisher=University of Oregon Libraries|url=http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2003260222/1898-05-25/ed-1/seq-3/|format=Reprint from May 25, 1898 issue|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}