Mohler USA

Mohler Oregon

Mohler Oregon is a sleepy Oregon coastal town one mile east of Highway 1 on Oregon State Highway 53 just north of Wheeler and south of Nehalem Bay.  Mohler is about one mile square with the Nehalem River running through the middle.  Across the street from the Nehalem Bay Winery is the Mohler Coop Store also known as the Mohler Market Place.  Mohler Sand and Gravel is just outside town.

Mohler Washington

Mohler Washington consists of two grain elevator complexes and the accompanying weigh station at the Mohler train stop about an hour by car from Spokane, 1.25 miles south of Washington State Highway 28 off Mohler Road.  Miles of wheat fields fill the surrounding area. 

Mohler Idaho

What is identified presently as Mohler Idaho is about 1/4 mile from the center of the town named Mohler that existed just after the turn of the 20th century.  Today's Mohler Idaho is recognized only by the large letters M-O-H-L-E-R painted on the roof of one of the barns at Bob Brannon's ranch behind the Highway Maintenance Building at the intersection of Mohler Road and Idaho State Highway 62.  Mohler Idaho has seen better days as is evidenced when looking at the dilapidated house on the corner of Mohler and Livengood Roads. The surrounding area is filled with rolling fields of wheat and sorghum .

Mohler Idaho's memory is kept alive in the book "Remember When" by Margaret Nell Longeteig and Rheba Miller. Thanks to Harold Brannon, the book has a few pictures of Mohler as it appeared around 1902. Bob Brannon tells a story that Mohler was built as a railroad town but unfortunately the railroad was built elsewhere. He believes the town's population peaked at several hundred with buildings lasting into the 1960's.  For many years, Mohler rivaled its neighbor town of Nez Perce, which is about six miles southwest on State Highway 62, boasting a schoolhouse, church, blacksmith shop, hotel, flour mill and a newspaper along with other businesses. 

Mohler South Dakota

United States Geological Survey maps shows Historic Mohler South Dakota as a spot just west of the intersection of Riverside Road and 148th Avenue near the town of Buffalo Gap.  Today the northwest corner of that intersection is the ranch house of Gerhardt Semmler. The rest of the area around the intersection is rolling ranch land. Gerhardt was helpful in locating and defining Historic Mohler by pointing out the existence of the book "Our Yesterdays" produced by the Eastern Custer County Historical Society, Hermosa, South Dakota, 1967-1970. The book is filled with stories of families founding and living in the Custer County South Dakota area. Historic Mohler South Dakota was named after its only postmaster, John Caspar Mohler. John Caspar Mohler had come to the Dakota Territories in 1888 to farm. According to "Our Yesterdays" and "South Dakota Post Offices" by Alan H. Patera, John S. Gallagher, and Kenneth W. Stach, the Mohler post office with John at the helm existed from 1906 until 1916 when postal service for the area moved to Buffalo Gap. John took the job as postmaster for $13 per month but was soon making $40. Residences of Mohler formed an irrigation association that had John Mohler at its treasurer. John and others built the first schoolhouse for the area at Harrison Flat.

Mohler Nebraska

Mohler Nebraska is an unmarked stop on the Union Pacific Railroad near an unmarked crossing about 10 miles west of Northport in Morrill County Nebraska. According to "Perkey's Nebraska Place Names " by  Elton A. Perkey, Nebraska State Historical Society Publications, Volume XXVIII, Lincoln, Nebraska, Copyright ©1982, Library of Congress Catalog Number 82-80300, "Mohler Station on the Union Pacific Railroad (is) possibly named for A. L. Mohler, former president of the line." The area around the train stop is typical of the corn and grain farms of the Nebraska panhandle. Very near Mohler train stop, there is an excellent view of the Chimney Rock National Monument.