Canby, Oregon
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Canby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97013. The Survey maps it on the Canby quadrangle. 18,171 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 153 feet above sea level.
On record in Canby
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 5 records
William Barlow Houselisted 1977
William Knight Houselisted 1986
Kraft-Brandes-Culberston Farmsteadlisted 1982
Macksburg Lutheran Churchlisted 1982- Herman Anthony Farmlisted 1979
Population over time
3 figuresCanby grew from 12,790 to 18,171 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 12,790 | |
| 2010 | 15,829 | +3,039 (+24%) |
| 2020 | 18,171 | +2,342 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 21 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.
- 1914 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1939 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Canby quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Canby quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:62500
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Canby quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 39 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Canby: 30 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Hansen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Forman Quarry #2 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| J P Vlahos | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Oregon State Hwy Div 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Petes Mtn | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Petes Mtn | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Forman Quarry No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| J P Vlahos | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Paraguay Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Albert Troutman | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canby in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 5 flood, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Flood | Canby | $1,000,000 | Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 27.8 feet on January 20th at 12 pm PST, 5.8 feet above flood stage. |
| October 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Canby | $5,000 | A tornado was spotted by several residents of Canby at 445 PM PDT south of Highway 99 off Barlow Road. The tornado did very minor damage to the home at 25170 S. Barlow Road, and did minor damage to a barn nearby that was being demolished. Five trees were blown over. |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Canby | - | A funnel cloud reported by general public around Canby, OR. |
| March 2012 | Flood | Canby | - | Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.0 feet on March 18th at 3 am PST, 1.0 feet above flood stage. |
| April 2012 | Flood | Canby | - | Heavy rain caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.8 feet on April 1st at 8 pm PST, 1.8 feet above flood stage. |
| November 2012 | Flood | Canby | - | Heavy rain caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.6 feet on January 22th at 10 pm PST, 1.6 feet above flood stage. |
| January 2009 | Flood | Canby | - | Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Molalla River to overflow its banks and cause flooding of low-lying areas. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barlow | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| O'Neil Corners | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Lone Elder | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| New Era | 3.2 miles | 21 | |
| Macksburg | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Charbonneau | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Central Point | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| Wilsonville | 5.0 miles | 22 |
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 Canby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2005284 | 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 1118554. 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.











