Green Hills, Oregon

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Portland West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97221. It lies near Council Crest. The Survey maps it on the Portland quadrangle.

Green Hills within Multnomah County

On record in Green Hills

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 10 records

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

Aubrey R. Watzek HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974 · 0.7 miles away
Roy and Leola Gangware Houselisted 1990 · 0.1 miles away
Ernest Haycox Estatelisted 1994 · 0.2 miles away
Dr. Frank B. Kistner Houselisted 1987 · 0.3 miles away
E. J. O'Donnell Houselisted 1994 · 0.3 miles away
Joseph Jacobberger Country Houselisted 2011 · 0.5 miles away
Theodore B. Wilcox Country Estatelisted 1993 · 0.6 miles away
Alan and Barbara Goldsmith Houselisted 2007 · 0.7 miles away
William F. Mangels Four-Row Carousellisted 1987 · 0.9 miles away
Baruh-Zell Houselisted 2007 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 33 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.

1897 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1905 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1940 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Green Hills: 27 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Limestone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Portland Tunnel	Mercury	Occurrence
Portland Tunnel	Mercury	Prospect
Sylvan Brick Co	Clay	Past Producer
Sylvan Brick Company	Clay	Past Producer
City of Portland	Stone	Past Producer
City of Portland	Stone	Past Producer
Grabhorn Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Rivergate Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sylvan	0.4 miles	33
Bridlemile	1.3 miles	21
Glencullen	1.3 miles	21
Portland Heights	1.4 miles	33
Vermont Hills	1.9 miles	21
Kings Heights	2.0 miles	33
Marquam Hill	2.1 miles	21
Willamette Heights	2.1 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136334. 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.