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Bend is a city in central Oregon and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located to the east of the Cascade Range , on the Deschutes River . The site became known by pioneers as a fordable crossing point of the river, where it ran through a bend.
This is a list of mayors of Bend, Oregon. The City of Bend was incorporated in 1904 and the first election for city leaders was held that year. The first mayor, Arthur L. Goodwillie, took office on January 4, 1905. Mayors were elected until Bend's charter was changed in 1928 following controversies sparked under the term of E.D. Gilson. [1]
Bend Municipal Airport is identified as a Category 2, High Activity Business and General Aviation airport by the Oregon Department of Aviation. In the year ending June 15, 2020, the airport had 141,175 aircraft operations, average 387 per day: 99% general aviation, <1% air taxi , and <1% military.
Deschutes County (/ d ə ˈ ʃ uː t s / də-SHOOTS) is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.As of the 2020 census, the population was 198,253. [1] The county seat is Bend. [2]
It jumped from 536 in 1910 to 5,414 in 1920, and by 1930, the city's population was 8,821. [8] After more than 20 years of non-stop logging, the forests in Central Oregon were becoming depleted. In 1937, the Bend Chamber of Commerce warned of economic disaster unless the mills started sustainable forestry.
Bend formed a recreation department and hired its first director in April 1949. Before then, summer youth activities were organized jointly with the local school district. Sites were maintained by the public works department until 1964 when the maintenance and recreation programs combined to form a new Parks and Recreation Department. [1]
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The City of Bend, Oregon, was founded in 1904, and lumber businessman Tom Shevlin donated the land to the city in 1919. [3] The park was then established in 1921 by the City of Bend and named after the donor. It has been managed by the Bend Park and Recreation District since 1974. [4] In 2019, Hixon Crossing Bridge located in the park was ...