Orenco, 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 Beaverton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. 450 people lived here at the 1990 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.
On record in Orenco
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Malcolm McDonald Houselisted 2015 · 0.4 miles away
Harold Wass Ray Houselisted 1994 · 0.5 miles away
Population over time
7 figuresOrenco grew from 75 to 450 between 1910 and 1990. 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 75 | |
| 1920 | 335 | +260 (+347%) |
| 1950 | 313 | |
| 1960 | 400 | +87 (+28%) |
| 1970 | 200 | -200 (-50%) |
| 1980 | 450 | +250 (+125%) |
| 1990 | 450 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1940 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1961 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Orenco: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillsboro | Platinum | Occurrence | Stream Placer | |
| Hillsboro Platinum Occurrence | PGE | Occurrence | ||
| Aloha Quarry Quality Rock Plant #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Farmington Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Farmington Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Rock Creek | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Rock Creek Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orenco in 1 storm report in 2013: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Orenco | - | A funnel cloud was observed near the Hillsboro airport. The funnel cloud lasted for approximately 5 minutes. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reedville | 2.1 miles | 22 | |
| Witch Hazel | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Rockcreek | 2.4 miles | 24 | |
| Tanasbourne | 2.6 miles | 24 | |
| Somerset West | 2.7 miles | 24 | |
| Tobias | 2.8 miles | 22 | |
| West Union | 2.8 miles | 24 | |
| Bethany | 3.1 miles | 24 |
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 Orenco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3710352 | The 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 1163191. 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.











