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Albany (/ ˈ æ l b ə n i / AL-bə-nee) is the county seat of Linn County, [12] Oregon, and is the 11th most populous city in the state. [13] Albany is located in the Willamette Valley at the confluence of the Calapooia River and the Willamette River in both Linn and Benton counties, just east of Corvallis and south of Salem.
Cities are the only form of municipal government incorporated in Oregon. [1] While villages and hamlets exist in Oregon, they are created by Clackamas County only, [2] and do not resemble municipalities due to the limited nature of their powers and their lack of home-rule charters. [3]
The following year, the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board replaced GWEB, [7] and expanded the five member board with six public members. [9] Passage of Measure 76 in Oregon's 2010 General Election continued lottery funding for parks, beaches, wildlife habitat, watershed protection beyond 2014 and modified the funding process. [10]
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.
Map of the United States with Oregon highlighted Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, it is the 27th-most populous state, with 4,237,256 inhabitants, and ranked 10th by land area, spanning 95,988 square miles (248,610 km 2) of land. Oregon is divided into 36 counties and contains 241 incorporated cities. Approximately 71 percent of ...
[5] [33] These cities include Springfield, Eugene, Corvallis, Albany, Salem, Keizer, Newberg, Oregon City, West Linn, Milwaukie, Lake Oswego, and Portland. [5] [33] The largest is Portland, with more than 500,000 residents. [33] Not all of these cities draw water in part or exclusively from the Willamette for their municipal water supply.
The DEQ has collected water-quality data in the Rogue basin since the mid-1980s and has used it to generate scores on the Oregon Water Quality Index (OWQI). The index is meant to provide an assessment of water quality for general recreational uses; OWQI scores can vary from 10 (worst) to 100 (ideal).
North Albany is the portion of Albany, Oregon, United States that lies in Benton County. [1] As of the 2020 United States census , it was estimated to have 11,273 of Albany's 56,472 people. [ 2 ] As of 2023, North Albany is the second largest city in Benton County, Oregon behind Corvallis, Oregon (61,087) and ahead of Philomath, Oregon (5,838).