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Metzger, 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. It stands on Ash Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaverton quadrangle. 4,272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Metzger within Washington County

On record in Metzger

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 1 record

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

Population over time

3 figures

Metzger grew from 3,354 to 4,272 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
20003,354
20103,765+411 (+12%)
20204,272+507 (+13%)

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 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Metzger: 25 past producers, 9 producers. 9 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
Durham QuarryStonePast Producer
Grabhorn QuarryStonePast Producer
Grimms Fuel CoStonePast Producer
Lake Oswego Cement PlantStonePast Producer
Murray Road QuarryStonePast Producer
Murray Road QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metzger in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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
May 2023FloodMetzger$14,000Heavy rains around 1 inch in a half hour to an hour resulted in Ash Creek in southwest Portland to over flow. Around 14 homes had varying amounts of flooding.

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
Bradley Corner0.9 miles24
Tigard1.2 miles24
Garden Home1.4 miles24
Progress1.4 miles24
Whitford1.9 miles24
Bonita2.1 miles24
Raleigh Hills2.4 miles24
Durham3.1 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 MetzgerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q609116The 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 1136533. 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.