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Yamhill County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 107,722. [1] The county seat is McMinnville. [2] Yamhill County was named after the Yamhelas, members of the Kalapuya Tribe. [3] Yamhill County is part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
McMinnville is the county seat of and most populous city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States at the base of the Oregon Coast Range. The city is named after McMinnville, Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 34,319. [5] McMinnville is at the confluence of the North and South forks of the Yamhill River in the ...
Southern part of Linn County and the portion of Benton County east of Umpqua County: Named for Joseph Lane, the first governor of the Oregon Territory. 381,181: 4,554 sq mi (11,795 km 2) Lincoln County: 041: Newport: 1893: Western portion of Benton County and Polk County: Named for President Abraham Lincoln. 50,821: 980 sq mi (2,538 km 2) Linn ...
Built in 1895, this is the most intact and architecturally sophisticated of the few remaining one-room schoolhouses in Yamhill County. It served students in kindergarten through 8th grade until it closed in 1957, and has since been converted into a house. It is the sole remnant of the former railroad town of Briedwell. [7] 7
District boundaries have changed over time. Therefore, senators before 2021 may not represent the same constituency as today. From 1993 until 2003, the district covered parts Clackamas County; from 2003 until 2013, it shifted to cover rural western Benton, Polk, and Yamhill counties plus a small panhandle in southern Marion County and a small part of Linn County to cover the small town of ...
As of 2021, the boundary for the district includes portions of Polk and Yamhill counties. The district includes McMinnville, Yamhill, Carlton, and Sheridan as well as the Grand Ronde Community. The current representative for the district is Republican Lucetta Elmer of McMinnville. [1] [2]
In September 1857, a petition that was signed by 396 voters called for an election to relocate the seat of county government. In April 1858, W. T. Newby (founder of McMinnville) proposed giving 5 acres (20,000 m 2) or 140 lots to the county if McMinnville was chosen as site of the new courthouse.
Oregon Route 240 is a short highway, running about 11 miles (18 km) from Newberg to Yamhill. It has medium traffic and it is to the southwest of the Portland metropolitan area . OR 240 is known as the Yamhill-Newberg Highway No. 151 (see Oregon highways and routes ).