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41-59000. GNIS ID. 2411471 [ 6] Website. www .portland .gov. Portland ( / ˈpɔːrtlənd / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County ...
Naito Parkway is a major thoroughfare of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was formerly known as Front Avenue and Front Street and was renamed in 1996 to honor Bill Naito. It runs between SW Barbur Boulevard and NW Front Avenue, and adjacent to Tom McCall Waterfront Park through Downtown Portland .
Ladd's Addition is an inner southeast historic district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is Portland's oldest planned residential development, and one of the oldest in the western United States. [ 1] The district is known in Portland for a diagonal street pattern, which is at odds with the rectilinear grid of the surrounding area.
The opened Morrison Bridge, photographed from East Portland. The Morrison Bridge is a bascule bridge that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Completed in 1958, it is the third bridge at approximately the same site to carry that name. [ 2] It is one of the most heavily used bridges in Portland. [ 3]
The Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), the 23rd largest in the United States, [ 14 ] has a population of 2,226,009 (2010 Census). Of them, 1,789,580 live in Oregon (46.7% of the state's population) while the remaining 436,429 live in Washington (6.7% of state's population). It consists of Multnomah, Washington ...
As the main street of St. Johns ' commercial core, it was named Jersey Street. [6] Historically, Lombard Street was home to a large segment of the "St. Johns" streetcar line, which ran from Albina to St. Johns between 1889 and 1937. The Kenton Stockyard line also traveled up a portion of Lombard between 1909 and 1928.
Laurelhurst Park is a city park in the neighborhood of Laurelhurst in Portland, Oregon. [2] The 26.81-acre (10.85 ha) park was acquired in 1909 from the estate of former Portland mayor William S. Ladd. The City of Portland purchased the land in 1911, and the following year park superintendent Emanuel Mische designed the park in accordance with ...
Klickitat Street is a city street located in northeast [ 3] Portland, Oregon, United States. The main stem of the street is 3.75-mile (6.04 km) long, and runs east-west parallel to—and one block south of—northeast Fremont Street, from the eastern edge of Irving Park to Northeast 67th Avenue. [ 4] Additional disconnected segments are east of ...