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Garden Home, Oregon

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Beaverton-Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97223. The Survey maps it on the Beaverton quadrangle.

Garden Home within Washington County

On record in Garden Home

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Garden Home: 25 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Iron. 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
Oswego Iron MineIronPast Producer1867, 1894
Oswego Iron MineIronPast Producer
Sylvan Brick CoClayPast Producer
Sylvan Brick CompanyClayPast Producer
City of PortlandStonePast Producer
Durham QuarryStonePast Producer
Grabhorn QuarryStonePast Producer
Murray Road QuarryStonePast Producer
Murray Road QuarryStonePast Producer
Progress QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden Home in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 lightning. 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
June 2018LightningGarden Home$6,000Lightning struck three trees, causing two to explode. The third caught fire, then the top came crashing to the ground, landing on and damaging a deck attached to a house.

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
Raleigh Hills1.1 miles24
Whitford1.1 miles24
Metzger1.4 miles24
Bradley Corner1.4 miles24
Progress1.6 miles24
West Slope2.3 miles24
Tigard2.6 miles24
Beaverton3.0 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136309. 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.