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Longview is an unincorporated historic community in Benton County, Washington, United States, located approximately three miles west of Umatilla, Oregon on the north bank of the Columbia River, just above Devil's Bend Rapids. [4]
The Lewis and Clark Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Longview, Washington, and Rainier, Oregon. At the time of its completion, it had the longest cantilever span in the United States. [1] The bridge was opened on March 29, 1930, as a privately owned bridge named the Longview Bridge. The $5.8 million cost ...
The agency branded itself as "C-Tran" and took over the Vancouver Transit System on July 6, 1981. [7] The Vancouver system was originally established in May 1969 and was supplemented by Tri-Met express service from Portland that began in 1976. [6] [8] The Tri-Met service continued under contract after C-Tran was established and gradually phased ...
The 466-mile (750 km) corridor extends from Eugene, Oregon, to Vancouver, British Columbia, via Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region. It was designated a high-speed rail corridor on October 20, 1992, as the one of five high-speed corridors in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA).
The high-technology industry accounted for 19 percent of Oregon's economy in 2005, and the Silicon Forest name has been applied to the industry throughout the state in such places as Corvallis, Bend, and White City. Nevertheless, the name refers primarily to the Portland metropolitan area, where about 1,500 high-tech firms were located as of 2006.
The Port of Longview is located 66 river miles inland from the Pacific Ocean on the deep-draft Columbia River shipping channel. It is approximately 120 driving miles from Seattle, Washington and 40 miles from Portland, Oregon.
At the time of its conception, Longview was the only planned city of its magnitude to have ever been conceived of and built entirely with private funds. A number of prominent buildings in Longview were purchased with R. A. Long's personal funds, including R. A. Long High School, the Longview Public Library, the YMCA building and the Monticello ...
Long View Island (French: Ile Longue Vue), Thousand Islands, Saint-Lawrence River, New York State; Longview School, Brewster, New York State; Long View, North Carolina, a town in Burke and Catawba counties; Long View Center, Raleigh, North Carolina; a historic church; Longview Ranch Airport, Wheeler County, Oregon