{{Infobox Settlement
|official_name            = Pendleton, Oregon
|settlement_type          = City
|nickname                 = 
|motto                    = The Real West!
|image_skyline            = IMG_4339.jpg
|imagesize                = 
|image_caption            = Main Street in Downtown Pendleton.
|image_flag               = 
|image_seal               = 
|image_map = Umatilla_County_Oregon_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Pendleton_Highlighted.svg
|mapsize                  = 250px
|map_caption              = Location in Oregon
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|subdivision_type         = Country
|subdivision_name         = United States
|subdivision_type1        = State
|subdivision_name1        = Oregon
|subdivision_type2        = County
|subdivision_name2        = Umatilla
|government_type          = 
|leader_title             = Mayor
|leader_name              = Phillip Houk
|established_title        = Incorporated
|established_date         = 1880
|area_magnitude           = 
|area_total_sq_mi         = 10.1
|area_total_km2           = 26.0
|area_land_sq_mi          = 10.1
|area_land_km2            = 26.0
|area_water_sq_mi         = 0
|area_water_km2           = 0
|area_urban_sq_mi         = 
|area_urban_km2           = 
|area_metro_sq_mi         = 
|area_metro_km2           = 
|population_as_of         = 2006
|population_note          = 
|population_total         = 17310
|population_metro         = 
|population_urban                 = 
|population_density_km2   = 628.3
|population_density_sq_mi = 1627.2
|timezone                 = Pacific
|utc_offset               = -8
|timezone_DST             = Pacific
|utc_offset_DST           = -7
|latd = 45 |latm = 40 |lats = 13 |latNS = N
|longd = 118 |longm = 47 |longs = 53 |longEW = W
|elevation_m              = 365.8
|elevation_ft             = 1200
|website                  = [http://www.pendleton.or.us http://www.pendleton.or.us]
|postal_code_type         = ZIP code
|postal_code              = 97801
|area_code                = 541
|blank_name               = FIPS code
|blank_info               = 41-57150
|blank1_name              = GNIS feature ID
|blank1_info              = 1125283
|footnotes                = 
}}
'''Pendleton''' () is a city in Umatilla County, Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the 1864 presidential campaign. The population was 16,354 at the 2000 census. The 2006 estimate is 17,310 residents.<ref name="psu">[http://www.pdx.edu/media/p/r/PRC_Certified_Cities_2006.pdf PSU:Population Research Center]</ref> It is the Umatilla County.

== History ==
A commercial center in the locality of Pendleton began as early as 1851, when Dr. William C. McKay established a trading post at the mouth of McKay Creek. A Post Office with the name of Marshall (named for the owner of another local store, and sometime gambler) was established April 21, 1865, and later renamed Pendleton. The city was incorporated in 1880.

By 1900, Pendleton had a population of 4,406 and was the fourth-largest city in Oregon. Like many cities in eastern Oregon, it had a flourishing Chinatown from the 1880s into the 1920s.

Pendleton Woolen Mills, founded in 1893, is known world-wide as a maker of fine Indian trading blankets and men's plaid shirts.

In addition to the woolen mills, Pendleton is also famous for its annual rodeo, the Pendleton Round-Up. First held in 1910, it is part of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) sanctioned rodeo circuit. In 1999, the Pendleton Round-Up Association added a two night Professional Bull Riders Classic to the Annual events. This rodeo is most noted for the fact it is the only PRCA even held on a grass field at the Round-Up Stadium in down town Pendleton.

Pendleton also had a strong necktie hangings.<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/osc/osc_docs.html American Catholic History Classroom: The Catholic Church and the Knights of Labor: Documents<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Jewish and African American residents were few, however the few that were there were quickly driven out of town. The KKK also rode in the Pendleton Round-Up parade for many years in full white robes.<ref>[http://www.tamastslikt.com/press.asp?id=96 Tamastslikt Cultural Institute | Museum and Art Gallery | Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Tribes<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Catholics were also discriminated against, and often not allowed to hold teaching positions in public schools.<ref name="autogenerated1" />

In addition Pendleton had a noted red light district, which as late as 1947 counted 20 brothels in the heart of the city. While the threat of a Presbyterian minister in 1953 to read in church a list of names of patrons of the city's brothels closed the district, one survivor, Stella Darby, continued to operate her establishment until she retired in 1965. The four blocks that this red-light district once covered is now the "old town" of Pendleton, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Pendleton has been a center of Culture and Art in the region for many years. Boasting institutions like the Pendleton Center for the Arts (in the town's old Carnegie Library building) and Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts on the nearby Umatilla Indian Reservation.

Pendleton is also home of EOCI (Eastern Oregon Correctional Institute). EOCI is the state's only facility where the internationally-recognized "Prison Blues " line of blue denim clothing is manufactured. The garment factory is one of two prison industries programs operating at the facility. The prison's commercial laundry cleans clothing and other items for EOCI and Snake River Correctional Institution, in addition to Pendleton's local high school, the city's fire department, the Pendleton Convention Center, and Krusteaz Flour Mill. Other inmate work opportunities include: food service, clerical, and facility maintenance.

==Geography and climate==
Pendleton is located at  (45.670308, -118.798118).  According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.1&nbsp;square miles (26.0&nbsp;km²), all of it land.

I-84 passes through Pendleton, between Portland to the west and Boise, Idaho to the east.  The Umatilla River flows through Pendleton.

right|thumb|Historic Rainbow Cafe in downtown Pendleton (before 2006 facade remodel)

{| class="wikitable" "text-align:center;font-size:90%;"|
| colspan="13" style="text-align:center;font-size:120%;"|Monthly Normal and Record High and Low Temperatures
|-
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color: #000000" height="17" | Month
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Jan
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Feb
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Mar
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Apr
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | May
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Jun
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Jul
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Aug
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Sep
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Oct
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Nov
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" | Dec
|-
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" height="16;" | Rec High °F
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 70
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 75
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 80
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 91
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 100
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 108
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 110
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 113
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 102
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 92
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 80
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 67
|-
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" height="16;" | Norm High °F
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 40.1
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 46.5
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 54.8
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 62.2
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 70.2
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 78.7
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 87.7
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 86.6
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 77.1
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 63.8
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 48.5
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 40
|-
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" height="16;" | Norm Low °F
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 27.4
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 30.9
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 35.4
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 39.7
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 45.9
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 52
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 57.5
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 57.3
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 49.7
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 40.7
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 33.8
| style="text-align:center; background: #C5DFE1; color:#000000;" | 27.7
|-
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" height="16;" | Rec Low °F
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | -22
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | -18
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 1
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 18
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 25
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 35
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 42
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 40
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 30
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | 11
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | -12
| style="text-align:center; background: #F8F3CA; color:#000000;" | -19
|-
! style="background: #E5AFAA; color:#000000;" height="16;" | Precip (in)
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 1.45
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 1.22
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 1.26
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 1.13
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 1.22
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 0.78
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 0.41
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 0.56
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 0.63
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 0.99
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 1.63
| style="text-align:center; background: #E8EAFA; color:#000000;" | 1.48
|-
| colspan="13" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;"|''Source: USTravelWeather.com [http://www.ustravelweather.com/weather-oregon/pendleton-weather.asp]''
|}

{{Infobox Ort in den Vereinigten Staaten
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 |Bundesstaat=Oregon
 |County=Umatilla County
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'''Pendleton''' ist eine Kleinstadt mit einer Fläche von 26,0 km² in Oregon und County Seat des Umatilla County. Im Jahr 2004 hatte der Ort 16.605 Einwohner.

== Geschichte ==
1851 richtete Dr. William C. McKay ein Geschäft in der Nähe der Mündung des McKay-Baches ein. 1865 wurde ein Postamt eingerichtet, das noch ''Marshall'' als Ortsname führte. Marshall war der Name eines Geschäftsmannes, der am Ort Kaufmann war. Die Stadt wurde 1880 offiziell gegründet.

Im Jahr 1900 hatte Pendleton 4406 Einwohner und war die viertgrößte Stadt in Oregon. Wie viele Orte in Ost-Oregon hat auch Pendleton ein betriebsames Chinatown in den 1880er und 1920er Jahren. Die Stadt wurde 1868 nach George H. Pendleton, einem Kandidaten für den Vizepräsidenten, benannt. 
Pendleton Woolen Mills, eröffnet 1893, ist ein weltbekannter Hersteller von indianischen Decken und bestickten Herren-Ponchos. 

Seit 1910 wird hier das jährliche ''Pendleton Roundup''-Rodeo als Teil des PRCA-Wettbewerbs abgehalten.

Eine weitere Besonderheit ist der Rotlichtbezirk, der noch 1947 20 Bordelle im Zentrum aufwies.