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Neighborhoods may span boundaries between the six sections (North Portland, Northeast Portland, Northwest Portland, South Portland, Southeast Portland, and Southwest Portland) of the city as well. The segmentation adopted here is based on Office of Community & Civic Life's district coalition model, under which each neighborhood is part of at ...
Powellhurst-Gilbert is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon.It borders the neighborhoods of Montavilla, Hazelwood, and Mill Park on the north, Centennial on the east, Pleasant Valley on the east and south, and Lents and South Tabor on the west.
Overlook is a neighborhood in the North section of Portland, Oregon on the east shore of the Willamette River.It borders University Park and Arbor Lodge on the north, Humboldt and Boise on the east, Eliot on the southeast, and Northwest Industrial and the Northwest District across the Willamette on the west.
East Columbia is a neighborhood in North and Northeast Portland, Oregon, located on the Columbia River floodplain. It borders Sunderland to the southwest, Piedmont and the Columbia Slough to the south, and Kenton to the west. To the north, it borders Bridgeton and the Columbia River. Much of East Columbia is made up of wetlands and industrial ...
The first park established in the neighborhood was Wilkes Park. The land for the park was acquired in 1998 and the park was dedicated August 3, 2004. [ 5 ] Since then, the city's parks department and its Bureau of Environmental Services partnered to acquire 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land at the headwaters of Wilkes Creek in March 2011 to create a ...
Portsmouth is a primarily residential neighborhood. A large portion of the neighborhood is occupied by New Columbia, an 82-acre (33 ha) mixed-income housing development. [3] Parks in Portsmouth include Columbia Park, McCoy Park, Northgate Park, and University Park. The Peninsula Crossing Trail runs along the neighborhood's western boundary.
Neighborhood parks include Gateway Discovery Park, [3] Knott City Park, and Merrifield Park. [ 4 ] "Basic Earthquake Emergency Communication Nodes" are locations in Portland where people can go to access emergency communications services if telephone service is down after an earthquake, or to report severe damage or injury. [ 5 ]
According to the 2014 Kerns Neighborhood Street Tree Inventory, [2] the neighborhood has 3,140 trees representing 91 different types. Parks in Kerns include Everett Community Garden (1988), Buckman Field (1920), and Oregon Park (1940). Portland Public Schools include Benson Polytechnic High School and da Vinci Arts Middle School.