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Cornelius, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Forest Grove-Cornelius census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97113. The Survey maps it on the Forest Grove quadrangle. 12,694 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 179 feet above sea level.

Cornelius within Washington County

On record in Cornelius

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Cornelius grew from 9,652 to 12,694 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.

YearPeople Change
20009,652
201011,869+2,217 (+23%)
202012,694+825 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cornelius: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
HillsboroPlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Hillsboro Platinum OccurrencePGEOccurrence
Forest Grove Clay Products CoClayPast Producer
Forest Grove Clay Products Co.ClayPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hergert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plant #2StonePast Producer
Plant #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Willamette Industries-Hergert QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornelius in 1 storm report in 2008: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008Funnel CloudCornelius-Reported a funnel cloud that did not touch down. Report was called in to a local media outlet.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Centerville (historical)2.2 miles18
Blooming2.3 miles17
Carnation2.4 miles18
Verboort2.5 miles18
Forest Grove2.7 miles18
Hillsboro3.7 miles24
Dilley3.9 miles17
Watts5.9 miles17

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 CorneliusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1822776The 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 1162918. 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.