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The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation. It was first established in 1969. [ 1 ] It had been preceded by the Oregon State Highway Department which, along with the Oregon State Highway Commission, was created by an act of the ...
Awarded "Plate of the Year" for best new license plate of 2019 by the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association, the third time Oregon was so honored. Surcharge, paid partly in the form of a voucher purchased from the non-profit Keep Oregon Green Association, supports that organization's efforts to reduce instances of human-caused wildfires.
Phone contact: You can reach the Oregon DMV through various phone numbers based on your location. For example, the Portland Metro Area number is 503-299-9999. For example, the Portland Metro Area ...
1967: Oregon Beach Bill establishes public ownership of land along the Oregon Coast [4] Willamette River Greenway; 1969: Senate Bill 10 required comprehensive land use plans for every city and county. Sohappy v. Smith, along with Washington's Boldt Decision, established fishing rights for Native Americans; 1970: Measure 11 failed (44%)
Aerial view of Mosier along the Columbia River, May 2008 A view of the Columbia River Gorge from a viewpoint near Mosier. As of the census [9] of 2010, there were 433 people, 203 households, and 107 families living in the city.
Linn County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2023 census population estimates, the population was 131,496. [1] The county seat is Albany. [2] The county is named in the honor of Lewis F. Linn, [3] a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American settlement of the Oregon Country.
Oregon ranks among the top ten states with the most wind power installed. Climbing from 1 percent in the early 2000s (decade), wind power accounted for 12.4 percent of total electricity generated in Oregon during 2013. [11] [12] In 2009, 691 MW of wind-powered capacity was added in Oregon, the fourth biggest increase in the U.S. that year. [13]
The Oregon Treaty [a] was a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818.