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Hillsboro (/ ˈ h ɪ l z b ər oʊ / ⓘ HILZ-burr-oh) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. [7] Situated in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city hosts many high-technology companies, such as Intel, locally known as the Silicon Forest.
A TriMet battery-electric bus on line 62 on Cornell Road in Cedar Mill, 2019. The main TriMet bus line along Cornell Road is number 48-Cornell. Serving communities on the western side of the West Hills, it has stops between Northwest Cedar Hills Boulevard/Northwest 113th Avenue (opposite sides of the same intersection), in Cedar Mill, and Cornell Road's western terminus in Hillsboro. [10]
In downtown Hillsboro it receives the northern terminus of Oregon Route 219, which is 1st Avenue. Highway 8 signs near downtown Hillsboro. After passing through downtown Hillsboro, OR 8 moves westward through the adjoined towns of Cornelius and Forest Grove, passing next to Pacific University. At Cornelius the road is again split into a one-way ...
Cornelius Pass at Baseline Road in 2009. Cornelius Pass Road begins at a three-way intersection with Southeast Deline Street in southern Hillsboro.It travels north across the bridge over Butternut Creek and Reed's Crossing towards a set of railroad tracks that are owned by Portland and Western Railroad and intersects OR 8 (concurrent with Tualatin Valley Highway) before continuing into ...
The Washington County Courthouse in Hillsboro. Washington County is centered on a fertile plain that attracted farmers before the first wagon trains. In 1997, orchards covered 8,403 acres (34.01 km 2) of the county's lands and 1,163 acres (4.71 km 2) were devoted to vineyards.
Oregon Route 219 (also known as part of the Hillsboro-Silverton Highway No. 140 (see Oregon highways and routes)) is an Oregon state highway which runs between the cities of Hillsboro and Woodburn, Oregon, in the United States. The Hillsboro-Silverton Highway continues further south to Silverton, signed as OR 214.
Hillsboro decided in March 1919 to have the new road travel along Baseline Street, two blocks south of Main Street where the road was to run. [ 5 ] In March 1953, Washington County planners decided to have the highway widened to four lanes from Beaverton to Forest Grove. [ 5 ]
In the U.S. state of Oregon, there are two systems for categorizing roads in the state highway system: named state highways and numbered state routes.Named highways, such as the Pacific Highway No. 1 or the North Umpqua Highway East No. 138, are primarily used internally by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) whereas numbered routes, such as Interstate 5 (I-5), U.S. Highway 20 (US ...