Main city: Helix
Timezone: Mountain / Pacific
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Helix Telephone Co.

Helix, a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. The population was 184 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Pendleton–Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area. Helix, a geometry term and a part of the ear, was originally to be named Oxford, but the state declined that option when the community's post office was to be named in 1880. The citizens then decided on Helix since a resident had recently had ear surgery. ^source

North American area code 541 covers the majority of Oregon, except the northwest part of the state. Its service area includes the cities of Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis, Albany, Medford, Bend, Ashland, The Dalles, and Pendleton, as well as the coastal region from Lincoln County to the California border. It began its split from area code 503 on November 5, 1995, and finished June 30, 1996. It is overlaid with area code 458, effective February 10, 2010. ^source