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Polk County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 87,433. [1] The county seat is Dallas. [2] The county is named for James Knox Polk, the 11th president of the United States. Polk County is part of the Salem, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Portland ...
Oregon's 5th congressional district stretches from the Southeast suburbs of Portland through the eastern half of the Willamette Valley and then reaches across the Cascades to take in Sisters and Bend. It includes a sliver of Multnomah County, the majority of Clackamas County, the rural eastern portion of Marion County, all of Linn County, a ...
Bethel, Polk County, Oregon. Coordinates: 45°02′25″N 123°11′05″W. Bethel Church, formerly Bethel School, with auditorium in background. Bethel is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States. [1] It sits at the base of the Eola Hills in Plum Valley. Bethel is considered a ghost town as the only remaining structure ...
Oregon's congressional districts. The U.S. state of Oregon has had six United States congressional districts since 2023, when the 6th district was created as a result of the 2020 census. [1] The 5th district was added as a result of the 1980 census, and boundaries were redrawn following the population changes to each district as determined by ...
Cook PVI. D+4 [ 2] Oregon's 6th congressional district is a congressional district created after the 2020 United States census. It consists of Polk and Yamhill Counties, in addition to portions of Marion, Clackamas, and Washington Counties. [ 3] It takes in all of urban Salem, the state's capital, as well as the southwestern suburbs of Portland.
A Tuesday morning fire burned down a hay press and storage facility in Polk County, creating a visible smoke cloud near Perrydale. According to a press release from the SW Polk Fire District ...
A helicopter carries water over the Almeda Fire at its point of origin in Ashland, Oregon, on September 8, 2020. In early September, unusually high winds and continued dry weather caused the rapid expansion of multiple wildfires in Oregon. Over 1,000,000 acres were burned, and about 40,000 people were evacuated, with about 500,000 people in ...
A four-acre site along Smith Lane near U.S. 98 north of Bartow was bought for a fire station by the Polk County Commission on Tuesday, part of the county's plan to replace the current Highland ...