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.
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
Albert S. Sholes Houselisted 1982
JS and Melinda Waggener Farmsteadlisted 2003
Population over time
3 figuresCornelius 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 9,652 | |
| 2010 | 11,869 | +2,217 (+23%) |
| 2020 | 12,694 | +825 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1941 USGS Gales Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Forest Grove quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Forest Grove quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Nehalem River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillsboro | Platinum | Occurrence | Stream Placer | |
| Hillsboro Platinum Occurrence | PGE | Occurrence | ||
| Forest Grove Clay Products Co | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Forest Grove Clay Products Co. | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hergert Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Plant #2 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Plant #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Willamette Industries-Hergert Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Cornelius | - | Reported a funnel cloud that did not touch down. Report was called in to a local media outlet. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerville (historical) | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| Blooming | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Carnation | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Verboort | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Forest Grove | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Hillsboro | 3.7 miles | 24 | |
| Dilley | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Watts | 5.9 miles | 17 |
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 Cornelius | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1822776 | 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 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.







