Editing Lexington, Oregon (section)

==Geography==
Lexington is located between the [[Columbia River]] to the north and the [[Blue Mountains (Pacific Northwest)|Blue Mountains]] to the southeast.<ref name="Rand McNally">{{cite book|title = The 2013 Road Atlas  |year = 2013 |publisher = Rand McNally |location=Chicago, Illinois |pages= 84–85|isbn=978-052-80062-2-7 }}</ref>  The town is along [[Oregon Route 74]], about {{convert|9|mi|km|0}} northwest of Heppner.<ref name="Rand McNally"/> Lexington is about {{convert|38|mi|km}} southwest of [[Hermiston, Oregon|Hermiston]] and {{convert|174|mi|km}} east of [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]].<ref name="Rand McNally"/><ref name="Infrastructure Authority">{{cite web|title=Lexington Community Profile|url=http://www.orinfrastructure.org/profiles/Lexington/|publisher=Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority|year=2009|access-date=July 16, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822163829/http://www.orinfrastructure.org/profiles/Lexington/|archive-date=August 22, 2010}}</ref>

[[Willow Creek (Columbia River)|Willow Creek]] flows through Lexington, which is downstream of Heppner and upstream of [[Ione, Oregon|Ione]] and [[Arlington, Oregon|Arlington]].<ref name="Rand McNally"/> According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|0.44|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all of it land.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=U.S. Gazetteer: 2010, 2000, and 1990|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/gazetteer.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=July 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801212339/https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography.html|archive-date=August 1, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Route 74 forms part of the Blue Mountain Scenic Byway, a {{convert|130|mi|km|adj=on}} set of roads connecting [[Interstate 84 in Oregon|Interstate 84]] (I-84) along the Columbia River with the [[North Fork John Day River]] in the Blue Mountains. Part of the route follows the Willow Creek drainage through Lexington.<ref name="Backroads of Oregon">{{cite book|last=Ostertag|first=Rhonda|title=Backroads of Oregon: Your Guide to Oregon's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures|publisher=Voyageur Press|location=Stillwater, Minnesota|year=2004|pages=105&ndash;06|isbn=0-89658-081-4}}</ref>