Albany, Oregon
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97321. It stands on Calapooia River. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle. 56,472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 197 feet above sea level.
On record in Albany
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 12 of 23 shown
Albany Custom Milllisted 1980
Albany Hebrew Cemeterylisted 2015
Albany Monteith Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2008
Albany Municipal Airportlisted 1998
Jerry Andrus Houselisted 2011
Granville H. Baber Houselisted 1975
George Earle Chamberlain Houselisted 1980
Alfred Dawson Houselisted 1980
First Evangelical Church of Albanylisted 1984
Flinn Blocklisted 1979
Hackleman Historic Districtlisted 1982
George Hochstedler Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresAlbany grew from 50,158 to 56,472 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 50,158 | |
| 2020 | 56,472 | +6,314 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1912 USGS Jefferson quadrangle1:31680
- 1916 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 27 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Albany: 15 past producers, 8 producers, 2 plants, 2 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Titanium, Metal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porcupine Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Smith-Butler | Iron, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | ||
| Smith-Butler | Iron, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Albany B Plant Ti | Titanium, Metal | Plant | ||
| Albany Plant Ti | Titanium, Metal | Plant | 1968 | |
| Cox Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Parker Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cox | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Cox Pit and Plant | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Parker | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albany in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Hail | Albany | $5,000 | Half-inch hail fell, and was reported to be 2-3 inches deep. |
| March 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Albany | $500 | At 1440 PST a thunderstorm apparently spawned a small tornado near a shopping area in Albany. Several eyewitnesses reported seeing debris rotating up to about 80 feet above the ground as the mini-twister moved across an empty parking lot. As the cloud passed over a large puddle witnesses reported seeing the water sucked up into the funnel along with the rest of the swirling debris. The storm moved across the street to a thrift store where it blew a door open, scattered merchandise about, and blew a storefront window out onto the sidewalk. The entire episode lasted about 10 seconds. Five minutes later small hail fell. |
| April 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Albany | - | A trained spotter observed a funnel cloud along Interstate 5 around 10 miles south of Albany, Oregon. |
| May 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Albany | - | A trained spotter reported seeing a funnel cloud near Albany, Oregon. |
| January 2006 | Flood | Albany | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Draperville | 3.7 miles | 19 | |
| Millersburg | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Tangent | 6.6 miles | 18 | |
| Central (historical) | 7.0 miles | 20 | |
| Crabtree | 11.0 miles | 20 | |
| Shedd | 12.1 miles | 16 | |
| Lebanon | 12.6 miles | 23 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Albany | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q516817 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1116796. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.











