Toketee Falls
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Toketee Falls is a waterfall in Douglas County, Oregon, United States, on the North Umpqua River at its confluence with the Clearwater River.<ref name=GNIS>Template:Cite gnis</ref><ref name=OGN>Template:Cite OGN</ref> It is located approximately Template:Convert east of Roseburg near Oregon Route 138, northwest of the North Entrance to Crater Lake.<ref name=Atlas>Template:Cite book</ref> Toketee (pronounced TOKE-uh-tee), is a Chinook Jargon word meaning "pretty" or "graceful".<ref name=OGN/> The falls was officially named by a United States Board on Geographic Names decision in 1916, over alternate names Ireland Falls and Toketie Falls.<ref name=GNIS/>
Description
Carved from ancient columnar basalt, Toketee Falls drops approximately Template:Convert in two stages.
With a reliable water flow on the North Umpqua River, the falls avoids the seasonal fluctuations of other creek-fed waterfalls in Oregon.
Hydropower plant
The waterfall is regulated by a dam built just upstream by PacifiCorp, which now regulates and reduces the water flow over the falls. The damming forms a reservoir called Toketee Lake.<ref name=OGN/> Previously the full volume of the North Umpqua River was allowed to flow over the falls, but the flow has been reduced by a penstock that utilizes the drop of the falls to generate hydroelectricity.
Post office
There was a Toketee Falls, Oregon post office from 1952 to 1956 during the construction of the PacifiCorp hydroelectric plant.<ref name=OGN/>