Brothers, Oregon
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Brothers is an unincorporated community in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States on U.S. Route 20. It is part of the Bend, Oregon metropolitan statistical area. It lies at an elevation of Template:Convert.<ref name="gnis" />
In 2005, the Associated Press described Brothers as "a speck of a town".<ref name=SaveAP>Template:Cite news</ref>
History
Originally a stagecoach stop between Burns and Prineville, the Brothers Stage Stop was built in 1912. It was a gas station, restaurant, and post office up until around 2018. It has changed owners a few times over the years and is currently not in operation.<ref name="Travel Oregon">Template:Cite web</ref>
Brothers post office was established in 1913.<ref name="OGN">Template:Cite book</ref> One source says that the name comes from several families of brothers who settled in the area, including the Stenkamp Brothers and Varco(e) Brothers, while another notes that there was a local Three Brothers Sheep Camp, named for three nearby hills that had the Three Sisters mountains looming behind them.<ref name=OGN/> The wool trade around World War I helped the town develop.<ref name=SaveAP/>
Vast tracts of uninhabited land covered with sagebrush surround Brothers, which are often used for model and high power rocket launches by Oregon Rocketry<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which has one of the highest Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airspace waivers in the United States at Template:Convert.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Climate
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Brothers has a steppe climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. Template:Weather box
Transportation
Brothers is a stop on the Eastern POINT intercity bus line between Bend and Ontario. It makes one stop per day in each direction.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Education
Brothers is currently in Crook County School District.<ref>Template:Cite web - Compare to the school district map.</ref><ref>Template:Cite map - Text list</ref> It operates Brothers Elementary School, a K-8 school.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The grounds include the current school building, a one room schoolhouse, as well as the former school, used for storage.<ref name=ArellanoSummer>Template:Cite news</ref> The school has a teachers' residence and relies on a well.<ref name=Fisciaro2017>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2023, it had a four-day school week, with two teachers alternating days. In 2023, its student count was six.<ref name=ArellanoSummer/>
The community was previously in the Brothers School District, which operated a K-8 school.<ref name=Bousquetmerge>Template:Cite news</ref> Sometime before 1989, the Brothers school district sent older students to Bend Senior High School of the Bend School District. Circa 1989, due to lower costs, it instead began sending older students to Crane Union High School, which had and has boarding facilities.<ref name=Rhiannonteens>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1991, Crane remained as the district's default choice, while some students instead chose to live with family members in other communities and attended high school there.<ref name=Faces>Template:Cite news</ref> Due to a loss of enrollment, effective 2006, the Brothers district was consolidated into the Crook County district.<ref name=Bousquetmerge/> The Brothers School closed in 2006. In 2007, one student who lived in the Brothers area went to a school in Prineville.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Brothers Elementary reopened in 2015, with 7 students in the 2016-2017 school year and 13 students in the 2017-2018 school year.<ref name=Fisciaro2017/>
Deschutes County is in the boundary of Central Oregon Community College.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>