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Oregon City, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Northwest Clackamas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97045. It stands on Singer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oregon City quadrangle. 37,572 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Oregon City within Clackamas County

On record in Oregon City

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 12 of 29 shown

Every listing in Clackamas County

Population over time

3 figures

Oregon City grew from 25,754 to 37,572 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
200025,754
201031,859+6,105 (+24%)
202037,572+5,713 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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 Oregon City: 20 past producers, 11 producers, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Petes MtnIronPast Producer
Petes MtnIronPast Producer
J P VlahosStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pynns Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Seventh Day AdventistsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Francis Welsh Silica MineSilicaOccurrence
Francis Welsh Silica MineSilicaPast Producer
Terrill Silica DepositSilicaOccurrence
Terrill Silica DepositSilicaPast Producer
J P VlahosStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oregon City in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2022Debris FlowOregon City$50,000Oregon 99E was closed due to a rock fall which damaged a large truck. Around 2 to 3 inches of rain fell.
October 2000Tornado (F1)Oregon City$35,000no account filed
December 2014Heavy RainOregon City-The Oregon Department of Transportation reported that heavy rain resulted in a rockslide that blocked Highway 99E in Oregon City.
January 2012FloodOregon City-Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Willamette River below the Falls at Oregon City to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Willamette River crested at 29.1 feet on January 21st at 5 pm PST, 2.1 feet above flood stage.
November 2006FloodOregon City-The Clackamas River near Oregon City crested at 39.4 feet on November 7th, with flood stage at 39.0 feet.
January 2006FloodOregon City-no account filed
September 2006HailOregon City-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindOregon City-no account filed
December 2005FloodOregon City-no account filed
May 1996HailOregon City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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
West Linn0.6 miles19
Canemah1.1 miles19
Sunset1.2 miles21
Mount Pleasant1.3 miles19
Bolton1.4 miles21
Gladstone1.7 miles23
Clackamas Heights1.7 miles19
Park Place1.8 miles23

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 Oregon CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q849596The 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 1136601. 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.