Beaverton, Oregon Beaverton Beaverton, Oregon From top: Downtown Beaverton along Broadway, Beaverton City Fountain Park, City Hall, Beaverton City Library, Sisters of St.
From top: Downtown Beaverton along Broadway, Beaverton City Fountain Park, City Hall, Beaverton City Library, Sisters of St.
Official seal of Beaverton Beaverton is positioned in the US Beaverton - Beaverton Website City of Beaverton Beaverton is a town/city in Washington County, in the U.S.
The town/city center is 7 miles (11 km) west of downtown Portland in the Tualatin River Valley.
As of the 2010 census, the populace is 89,803. This makes it the second-largest town/city in the county and Oregon's sixth-largest city.
In 2010, Beaverton was titled by Money periodical as one of the 100 "best places to live", among lesser cities in the country. Along with Hillsboro, Beaverton is one of the economic centers for Washington County, home to various corporations in a range of industries.
City Park in Beaverton 7 Sister metros/cities According to Oregon Geographic Names, Beaverton's name is derived from the settlement's adjacency to a large body of water resulting from beaver dams.
The region of Tualatin Valley which became Beaverton was originally the home of a Native American tribe known as the Atfalati, which pioneer mispronounced as Tualatin.
In 1860, a toll plank road from Portland to Beaverton was instead of over a trail called Canyon Road. Watson, and John Henry, laid out what is now known as Beaverton hoping they could bring a barns to an region once described as, "mostly swamps & marshes connected by beaver dams to problematic what looked like a huge lake." In 1872, Beaverton's first postal service opened in a general store directed by Betts, who also served as the first postmaster of the community.
In 1893, Beaverton, which by that time had a populace of 400, was officially incorporated.
Many primary roads in Beaverton are titled for these early settlers.
Beaverton was an early home to automobile dealerships.
A Ford Motor Company dealership was established there in 1915; it was purchased by Guy Carr in 1923 and over the years Carr period it into a several locations throughout Beaverton.
Aerial view of Beaverton in the 1950s In the early 1920s, Beaverton was home to Premium Picture Productions, a movie studio which produced about fifteen films.
A second Beaverton airport, Bernard's Airport, was later advanced farther north, at the present locale of the Cedar Hills Crossing mall.
The Beaverton libraries and 15 other small-town libraries participate in the Washington County Cooperative Library Services.
Beaverton Depot for Oregon Electric Railway, ca.
In the 1940s, Tualatin Valley Stages, a division of Portland Stages, Inc., provided limited bus transit service connecting the town/city with downtown Portland, operating later as a separate company, Tualatin Valley Buses, Inc., through the 1960s.
All four companies were replaced in 1970 by Tri - Met, a then-new county-wide transit authority, which period bus service to cover more areas of Beaverton.
In the late 1970s, a light rail fitness was proposed to connect Beaverton to downtown Portland, as part of Metro's plans for the region's transportation.
Six stations are positioned inside the town/city of Beaverton: Elmonica/SW 170th Avenue, Merlo Road/SW 158th, Beaverton Creek, Millikan Way, Beaverton Central, and the Beaverton Transit Center.
All but the last of these (the transit center) are positioned along right-of-way formerly owned by Burlington Northern Railroad and originally by the Oregon Electric Railway, which provided interurban service through Beaverton until 1933.
The present-day light rail service (MAX) is directed by Tri - Met, which also continues to operate a several bus routes serving Beaverton and the encircling communities.
Since early 2009, Beaverton has also been served by commuter rail service, Tri - Met's Westside Express Service (WES), running south to Wilsonville via Tigard and Tualatin.
In December 2004, the town/city and Washington County announced an "interim plan" which would lead to Beaverton becoming the second-largest town/city in Oregon, second only to Portland. The "interim" plan actually veiled a reconstructionof more than ten years; from the county's perspective, the plan supported its strategy of having metros/cities and special districts furnish urban services.
The town/city of Beaverton also attempted to annex certain businesses, including Nike, which responded with a legal and lobbying accomplishment to resist the annexation. The lobbying accomplishment succeeded quickly, with the Oregon Legislative Assembly enacting Senate Bill 887, which prohibited Beaverton from annexing Nike without the company's consent.
The bill also applied to property owned by Electro Scientific Industries, Columbia Sportswear, and Tektronix, and in August 2008 the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals ruled that the bill also barred the town/city from annexing property belonging to Leupold & Stevens.
(See below, under Economy.) Nike's legal accomplishments to resist annexation cost Beaverton taxpayers over $360,000 as of July 2006. The Oregon State Legislature has also passed legislation which redetermined Washington County's urban expansion boundary to include more development. The town/city has tried to encourage transit-oriented evolution around the city's MAX Light Rail stations.
The Round, a mixed-use evolution around Beaverton Central MAX Station on the site of a former sewage plant, was originally announced in 1996. It is only partially complete, due to the bankruptcy of one developer and the Great Recession.
In 2014, the City of Beaverton moved its town/city hall into a vacant office building in The Round. Further evolution and an arts center have been proposed for the former site of the Westgate Theatre, adjoining to The Round. Reser's Fine Foods, processor and distributor of fresh prepared foods, has headquartered in Beaverton since 1960.
Leupold & Stevens, manufacturer of rifle scopes and other specialty optics, has been positioned on property adjoining to the City of Beaverton since 1968.
The Beaverton City Council took in that property in May 2005, and Leupold & Stevens challenged that annexation.
The business eventually won the legal fight in 2009 with the city, thus the business was de-annexed from the city. Beaverton is home to the world command posts of Nike, Inc.
Its command posts are positioned on an unincorporated region inside, but excluded from, Beaverton town/city limits.
As part of the Silicon Forest, Beaverton is the home to various technology organizations and companies. It is also home to the Oregon Technology Business Center (OTBC), a non-profit tech startup incubator that hosts networking affairs and entrepreneurship programs and offers coaching and shared office space to small-town venture. Hollywood Video was headquartered in Beaverton until 1994, when it moved into Wilsonville. According to the City's 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the biggest employers in the town/city are: 1 Beaverton School District 4,510 7 City of Beaverton 644 According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.73 square miles (48.51 km2), all territory except small creeks, ponds, and lakes. Climate data for Beaverton, Oregon The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 73.0% White, 2.6% African American, 0.6% Native American, 10.5% Asian, 0.5% Pacific Islander, 8.2% from other competitions, and 4.5% from two or more competitions.
The median age in the town/city was 34.7 years.
The enhance schools of Beaverton are part of the Beaverton School District.
Private schools in the region include German American School, Holy Trinity School, Jesuit High School, Saint Cecilia Grade School, Southwest Christian School, Valley Catholic School, and Wood - Haven School.
In 2014, the Beaverton Aloha Little League Intermediate baseball team won the state tournament and traveled to Nogales, Arizona to play in the county-wide tournament, where they accumulated a 2 2 record. In addition, a Junior Softball team from Beaverton went to 2006 World Series in Kirkland, Washington, ending in sixth place.
In 2002, Beaverton's Little League Softball team took second place to Waco, Texas, in the Little League Softball World Series.
In January 2013, Beaverton became the first town/city in Oregon to have an ice rink dedicated to the sport of curling, the Evergreen Curling Club. In January 2017, the Evergreen Curling Club hosted the United States Curling Association Senior Women's National Championship. There are many children's and grownups' sports leagues in the Beaverton area.
Since 1987, Beaverton has established sister town/city relationships with six foreign cities: Country City Year of Partnership "Money Magazine names Beaverton, Hillsboro in top 100 places to live".
Beaverton Valley Times.
"Best Places to Live: Money's list of America's best small metros/cities (2010)".
"Beaverton History".
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County Board Approves Interim Plan with Beaverton, a December 2004 article from the Washington County website Archived August 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
Statement By Nike Regarding The Recent Annexation Actions By The City Of Beaverton Archived November 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
Oregon State Bill 887 as enrolled from the Oregon Legislative Assembly website Archived March 3, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
Mayor blasts Nike: 'I'm tired of the bullying', a July 2006 article from the Beaverton Valley Times Archived August 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
"City of Beaverton Departments To Move Into 'The Round'".
"Beaverton signs exclusive agreement with developer for Westgate property, arts and culture center".
"Beaverton drops annexation fight".
"Poorman-Douglas swallows up Hollywood's Beaverton space." City of Beaverton Department of Finance.
"Average Weather for Beaverton, OR Temperature and Precipitation".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Beaverton Aloha Intermediate all-stars win Oregon state baseball title, head to regionals".
Beaverton Valley Times.
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