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'''Mt. Angel''' or '''Mount Angel'''<ref name=gnis/> is a city in [[Marion County, Oregon
==History==
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According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|1.14|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all of it land.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2012-12-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|archive-date=2012-01-25}}</ref>
Mt. Angel is in the [[Pudding River]] watershed. The town sits on the [[Gales Creek, Oregon|Gales Creek]]/Mount Angel lineament, and sits on the Mount Angel Fault, a northwest-trending geophysical structural zone.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=GC |last2=Crosson |first2=RS |last3=Carver |first3=DL |last4=Yelin |first4=TS |title=The 25 March 1993 Scotts Mills, Oregon Earthquake and Aftershock Sequence: Spatial Distribution, Focal Mechanisms, and the Mount Angel Fault |journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America |date=August 1996 |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=925–935 |doi=10.1785/BSSA0860040925 |bibcode=1996BuSSA..86..925T |s2cid=128775177 |url=https://www.wou.edu/las/physci/taylor/g473/seismic_hazards/thomas_etal_1996_scotts_mills.pdf |access-date=19 July 2019}}</ref> Activity along the fault caused the [[1993 Scotts Mills earthquake]], which significantly damaged various structures in the town, in particular [[St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Mount Angel, Oregon)|the parish church]].
===Climate===
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Mt. Angel is also home to the historic Queen of Angels Monastery, which is still operated by the Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel,<ref>[http://www.benedictine-srs.org/ Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel]</ref> and the 1912 [[St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Mount Angel, Oregon)|Saint Mary Catholic Church]], both of which are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP). [[Windischar's General Blacksmith Shop]] is another NRHP-listed structure in the city.
In March 2006, the city announced plans to build a {{convert|49|ft|m|adj=on}} [[Carillon|glockenspiel]]. Completed in time for Oktoberfest 2006, the glockenspiel is the largest in the United States.<ref name="Mt. Angel Oktoberfest">{{cite encyclopedia|author=Hillegas, James V.|title=Mt. Angel Oktoberfest|url=http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/mt_angel_oktoberfest/#.VSQQ5pOrGzk|encyclopedia=The Oregon Encyclopedia|publisher=Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society|access-date=2015-04-07}}</ref> Located on the corner of Charles and Garfield streets, the [[Mt. Angel
==Education==
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==Infrastructure==
[[File:Mt. Angel - DPLA - d9eb9b2522f3ddaeaebaefccc991d2fb.jpg|thumb|Mt. Angel City Hall]]
===Transportation===
====Highway====
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==In popular culture==
* Mt. Angel was the setting (dubbed Mt. Angel, [[Massachusetts]]) for the 1973 [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[television film]] ''[[Isn't It Shocking?]]''<ref>Deal, David. ''Television Fright Films of the 1970s''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. P. 89-90.</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070229/locations Internet Movie Database]</ref>
* In [[S.M. Stirling]]'s [[The Emberverse series|Emberverse]] series, Mt. Angel and its Benedictine monastic orders are the nucleus of a [[The Emberverse series#Mount Angel|post-apocalyptic community]] that survives "The Change," which pushes technology back to a medieval level.<ref>Stirling, S.M. ''A Meeting at Corvallis''. Penguin, 2007. P. 379-380</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3TdV9ee5jsC&q=mount+angel&pg=PA575|title = A Meeting at Corvallis|isbn = 9780451461667|last1 = Stirling|first1 = S. M.|year = 2007| publisher=Penguin }}</ref>
==References==
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