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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.
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.
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 ...
Map Baker County: 001: Baker City: 1862: Eastern portion of Wasco County: Named in honor of Edward Dickinson Baker, who died in combat while serving as Oregon senator. 16,912: 3,068 sq mi (7,946 km 2) Benton County: 003: Corvallis: 1847: Polk County: Named for Thomas Hart Benton, senator and advocate of U.S. annexation of the Oregon Country ...
The town of Orenco was named after the company, with OREgon Nursery COmpany becoming ORENCO. [1] After the company closed, the town disincorporated in 1938. [2] In 1993, construction on TriMet’s extension to its MAX Light Rail system began, and planning for new high-density neighborhoods along the line continued, including plans for Orenco Station. [3]
Washington County was created as Twality District on July 5, 1843, as part of the Champoeg Meetings that created the Provisional Government of Oregon. [2] The county became Washington County by an act of the Territorial Legislature in 1849, and in 1850 the community that would become Hillsboro was selected as the county seat.
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 ...