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Gresham (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ ʃ əm / GRESH-əm) is a city in the Willamette Valley, Located in Multnomah County in the U.S. state of Oregon, bordered by Portland to the northwest and partially in the southwest. It was first settled in the early 1850s by the Powell brothers.
5.1 Location map templates. 5.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/USA Oregon Gresham. 4 languages.
Area [4] 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 ...
Map of the United States with Oregon highlighted. Oregon is a state located in the Western United States. All population data is based on the 2020 census and 2010 census and the Census Bureau's annual estimates. [1] All area data is based on the 2010 US Gazetteer files. There are 241 municipalities.
Johnson Creek is a 25-mile (40 km) tributary of the Willamette River in the Portland metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Oregon.Part of the drainage basin of the Columbia River, its catchment consists of 54 square miles (140 km 2) of mostly urban land occupied by about 180,000 people as of 2012.
Oregon's 3rd congressional district covers most of Multnomah County, including Gresham, Troutdale, and most of Portland east of the Willamette River (parts of Northwest and Southwest Portland lie in the 1st and 5th districts). It also includes the northeastern part of Clackamas County and all of Hood River County.
Since 2003, a 1,200-acre (490 ha) area of Rockwood has been included in a Gresham-Rockwood Urban Renewal Area. [4] Rockwood is served by the Rockwood / East 188th Avenue light rail station on the MAX Blue Line. The neighborhood has been the site of a branch of the Multnomah County Library since 1963. [8]
With the abandonment of the interurban lines west along Burnside Street to Montavilla and north to Troutdale, in 1927, [1] it ceased being a junction, but interurban cars running between Portland and Bull Run (later cut back to Gresham) continued to pass through the area until the 1940s, and the location was still referred to as Ruby Junction.