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West Linn, 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 97068. It lies near Goat Island. The Survey maps it on the Oregon City quadrangle. 27,373 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

West Linn within Clackamas County

On record in West Linn

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 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

West Linn grew from 22,261 to 27,373 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
200022,261
201025,109+2,848 (+13%)
202027,373+2,264 (+9%)

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 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of West Linn: 21 past producers, 12 producers, 2 occurrences. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Francis Welsh Silica MineSilicaOccurrence
Francis Welsh Silica MineSilicaPast Producer
Grimms Fuel Co. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lake Oswego Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pynns Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Seventh Day AdventistsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Terrill Silica DepositSilicaOccurrence
Terrill Silica DepositSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Linn in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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
December 2015FloodWest Linn-The Tualatin River at West Linn exceeded Flood stage.
May 2005LightningWest Linn-Near West Linn, OR a lightning strike left up to 1800 residents without power for just under an hour.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindWest Linn-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
Oregon City0.6 miles19
Bolton0.8 miles21
Sunset1.0 miles21
Gladstone1.4 miles23
Canemah1.5 miles19
Glen Echo1.5 miles23
Park Place1.7 miles23
Jennings Lodge1.8 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 West LinnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q932097The 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 1128884. 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.