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Hillsboro, Oregon

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Beaverton-Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97124. It stands on McKay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. 106,447 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 197 feet above sea level.

Hillsboro within Washington County

On record in Hillsboro

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 11 records

Population over time

7 figures

Hillsboro grew from 200 to 106,447 between 1863 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
1863200
1880402+202 (+101%)
1900980+578 (+144%)
19102,016+1,036 (+106%)
200070,186
201091,611+21,425 (+31%)
2020106,447+14,836 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hillsboro: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum, PGE. 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
John MathewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
John MathewsStonePast Producer
VandecoeveringStonePast Producer
VandecoeveringStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 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
September 2015Funnel CloudHillsboro-The NWS received several reports of a funnel cloud near Hillsboro in the afternoon, including one report from a county official.
August 1999LightningHillsboro-The last evening of convection in a very active three day period produced two strong cells that brought widespread lightning to the Portland and Hillsboro areas. More than 100 transformers were knocked out, causing power outages to 15000 Portland General Electric customers. The Westside MAX Light Rail line was out of service from 7 PM to 830 PM.
May 1998HailHillsboro-A small airplane pilot near Hillsboro reported brief quarter sized (one inch) hail at a little after 4 PM PST. The report was confirmed by a call to McMinnville Flight Service Station.

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
Witch Hazel3.5 miles24
Cornelius3.7 miles18
Blooming4.1 miles17
Orenco4.1 miles24
Centerville (historical)4.4 miles18
Reedville5.0 miles22
North Plains5.1 miles24
Glencoe5.3 miles24

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 HillsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q81824The 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 1163049. 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.