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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.

Albany within Linn County

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

Every listing in Linn County

Population over time

2 figures

Albany 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.

YearPeople Change
201050,158
202056,472+6,314 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Porcupine MineGoldPast Producer
Smith-ButlerIron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
Smith-ButlerIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Albany B Plant TiTitanium, MetalPlant
Albany Plant TiTitanium, MetalPlant1968
Cox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Parker PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
CoxStonePast Producer
Cox Pit and PlantStonePast Producer
ParkerStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2007HailAlbany$5,000Half-inch hail fell, and was reported to be 2-3 inches deep.
March 1994Tornado (F0)Albany$500At 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 2016Funnel CloudAlbany-A trained spotter observed a funnel cloud along Interstate 5 around 10 miles south of Albany, Oregon.
May 2016Funnel CloudAlbany-A trained spotter reported seeing a funnel cloud near Albany, Oregon.
January 2006FloodAlbany-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Riverside3.4 miles17
Draperville3.7 miles19
Millersburg3.9 miles19
Tangent6.6 miles18
Central (historical)7.0 miles20
Crabtree11.0 miles20
Shedd12.1 miles16
Lebanon12.6 miles23

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 AlbanyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q516817The 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.