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Millcreek is a recognized place name for addresses in the ZIP codes 84106, 84107, 84109, 84117, and 84124. The city is organized into four community councils, Canyon Rim, East Mill Creek, Millcreek, and Mount Olympus, roughly corresponding to the former CDPs. [12]
Mill Creek was officially incorporated as a city on September 30, 1983, ten days after a vote of residents passed, and encompassed 1.92 square miles (5.0 km 2). [26] [27] Mill Creek was the first new city to be incorporated in Snohomish County since Brier in 1965 and the newest in the state since Ocean Shores in 1970. [28]
Mill Creek is a 26-mile (42 km) tributary of the Willamette River that drains a 111-square-mile (290 km 2) area of Marion County in the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] Flowing generally west from its source south of Silver Falls State Park, it passes through the cities of Aumsville, Stayton, Sublimity, and Turner before emptying into the Willamette in Salem.
The historic name of the area is "East Mill Creek", as three distinct words. Although the variant "East Millcreek" currently is widely used, the community council and several other local entities retain the original usage. [4] East Mill Creek was settled in 1848. Its name derives because it was along the more eastern creek in the valley with a ...
The borough of Mill Creek is located in east-central Huntingdon County on the northeastern side of the Juniata River where it is joined by Mill Creek. U.S. Route 22 passes through the borough, leading northwestward 5 miles (8 km) to Huntingdon, the county seat, and southeastward 6 miles (10 km) to Mount Union.
The census-designated place of Alvordton is located in central Mill Creek Township. The township lies within the Toledo Strip, a contested ribbon of land over which Ohio and Michigan came to blows in an 1835–36 confrontation known as the Toledo War. [4]
The neighborhood was formerly home to the Mill Creek Apartments, a public housing project that was designed by Louis Kahn during the early 1950s. [4] Its three 17-story highrise project towers were demolished in 2002 and replaced with suburban -style low-rise houses, a development named Lucien Blackwell Homes after the congressman .
Mill Creek Valley became one of the largest African American communities in the first half of the 20th century. [9] Black businesses and organizations thrived. [7] Mill Creek Valley, spanning 465 acres, [4] was the home to hundreds of businesses and organizations, 5,600 residential buildings, and 43 historic churches in the 1950s.