McMinnville Essential Info
Overview
McMinnville is a city in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. It is the county seat and largest city of Yamhill County.
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Basics
Best Time To Go
Apr-Sep
Current Time
Current Weather
45 °F
Rain
Fun Facts
- McMinnville was named by its founder, William T. Newby an early immigrant on the Oregon Trail, for his hometown of McMinnville, Tennessee.
- McMinnville is known among UFO researchers for photographs published on the front page of the June 9, 1950, edition of the city's newspaper, the News-Register, reportedly of an unidentified flying object seen almost a month earlier, May 11.
- Since the 1990s, the majority of the vineyards of the Willamette Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA) are in the area surrounding McMinnville, thus giving this city a claim to the title of the capital of Oregon's wine industry.
- The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum is located in McMinnville and is best known as the home of the Spruce Goose, the world's largest propeller-driven seaplane, built by the famed aviator Howard Hughes.
- Ehren McGhehey, an American daredevil and acto best known as a star of the MTV series Jackass and its subsequent films, ws born in McMinnville.
Popular Foods
- Gnocchi
- White Truffle Fondue