Bend, Oregon
Bend, Oregon City of Bend Bend, Oregon is positioned in the US Bend, Oregon - Bend, Oregon Bend is a town/city in, and the governmental center of county of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is the principal town/city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Bend is Central Oregon's biggest city, and despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low populace density of that area.
Bend recorded a populace of 76,693 at the time of the 2010 U.S.
The estimated populace of the town/city as of 2013 is 81,236. Bend's metro populace was estimated at 165,954 as of July 1, 2013.
The Bend MSA is the fifth biggest urbane region in Oregon.
A average median homehold income map of Bend.
Bend is positioned on the easterly edge of the Cascade Range along the Deschutes River.
Bend was incorporated as a town/city in 1905.
In 2015, Men's Journal ranked Bend as one of The 10 Best Places to Live Now. The name Bend was derived from "Farewell Bend", the designation used by early pioneers to refer to the locale along the Deschutes River where the town was eventually platted, one of the several fordable points along the river.
For at least 12,000 years, until the winter of 1824, the Bend region was known only to Native Americans who hunted and fished there.
Then pioneers heading farther west passed through the region and forded the Deschutes River at Farewell Bend.
Constructed in May 1901, the Pilot Butte Development Company's little plant was the first commercial sawmill in Bend.
Steidl and Reed also set up a small foundry in Bend in 1903.
The settlement was originally called "Farewell Bend", which was later shortened to "Bend" by the U.S.
In 1910, Mirror Pond was created by the assembly of the Bend Water, Light & Power Company dam on the Deschutes River in Bend.
The dam has been owned by Pacific Power since 1926 and still produces electricity that supplies approximately 200 Bend homeholds. In 1916, Deschutes County, Oregon was formed from the half of Crook County and Bend was designated as the county seat. In 1929, Bend amended the charter and adopted the council-manager form of government.
Bend sits on the boundary of the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills, a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S.
States of Oregon, Washington, and California, and the Deschutes River Valley, a Level IV ecoregion inside the Blue Mountains Level III ecoregion. The Deschutes River runs though Bend, where it is dammed to form Mirror Pond. Bend's altitude is 3,623 feet (1,104 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 33.27 square miles (86.17 km2), of which, 33.01 square miles (85.50 km2) is territory and 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2) is water. Bend is one of three metros/cities in the continental U.S.
A lesser known characteristic of Bend, the Horse Lava Tube System enters and borders the easterly edge of the city. Just south of Bend is Newberry National Volcanic Monument on U.S.
Bend, Oregon Bend's climate is typical of the high desert with cool evenings and sunny days, classified as semi-arid (Koppen BSk).
Annual rain averages 11.2 in (280 mm), with an annual average snow flurry of 23.8 inches (60.5 cm). The winter season in Bend provides a mean temperature of 31.1 F ( 0.5 C) in December. Nighttime temperatures are not much lower than daytime highs amid the winter.
Autumn usually brings warm, dry days and cooler evenings, and Bend is known for its annual Indian summer.
Bend's burgeoning season is short; as stated to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service, in half of the years between 1971 and 2000, the USDA weather station in Bend recorded the last below-freezing temperatures after July 3 and the first below-freezing temperatures before August 31. Based on 1981 2010 normals, the average window for freezing temperatures is September 13 through June 19.
Monthly and Annual Average Temperatures (deg F), Bend, 1981 2010 0 0 0 0 0.2 1.2 5.8 5.5 1.3 0 0 0 14.0 Min 0 or less 0.3 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 1.0 2.2 Climate data for Bend, Oregon (1981 2010 normals) Bend Metropolitan Travel Destination Bend is the larger principal town/city of the Bend-Prineville CSA, a Combined Travel Destination that includes the Bend urbane region (Deschutes County) and the Prineville micropolitan region (Crook County), which had a combined estimated populace of 216,310 by the United States Enumeration Bureau in 2008. Tourism is one of Bend's biggest sectors.
Transient room tax revenues through the first quarter of fiscal year 2015 equaled $2,221,610. The transient room tax is used in partnership with Visit Bend and the Bend Economic Development Advisory Board to convert visitors to Bend into inhabitants and company owners. In 2011, Visit Bend reported that families are the biggest demographic that visit Bend (35%), while couples with no kids make up the second biggest portion (24%) of visitors to the town/city During the same year, tourism generated $570 million and working 16% of the city's workforce. Bend is also home to the Deschutes Brewery, the 6th biggest craft brewery in the country and the biggest of over a dozen microbreweries in the city. Each year the town/city hosts many affairs celebrating its brewing culture including: The Bend Oktoberfest, The Little Woody Barrel Aged Brew and Whiskey Fest, Bend Brewfest, and Central Oregon Beer Week.
Beer aficionados can also visit many of the breweries along the Bend Ale Trail.
Since 2004, Bend has also hosted the one of the top indie film celebrations in the country The Bend Film Festival. In 2005, Bend's economic profile comprised five trade categories: tourism (7,772 jobs); healthcare and civil services (6,062 jobs); professional, scientific and technical services (1,893 jobs); wood products manufacturing (1,798 jobs); and recreation and transit equipment (1,065 jobs).
Much of Bend's rapid expansion in recent years is also due to its attraction as a retirement destination.
The rapid populace growth has fostered organizations such as Central Oregon Landwatch and Oregon Solutions. Bend Memorial Clinic (639) Bend Radio Group SIE Bend Studio Downtown assembly in Bend Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, in 2005 assembly and real estate accounted for 17.3 percent of all jobs in the Bend urbane statistical region (MSA), which constitutes all of Deschutes County. This figure is about 70 percent more than the proportion of assembly and real estate jobs in the Oregon and nationwide economies. However, assembly activeness in Bend appears to be slowing - the number of building permit applications received by the Bend City Building Division fell from 826 in August 2006 to 533 in August 2007, a 35 percent decrease. A large influx of new inhabitants drawn by Bend's lifestyle amenities, along with the low interest rates and easy lending that fostered a nationwide housing boom in 2001 05, resulted in increased activeness in Bend's assembly and real estate sectors and have caused the rate of home price appreciation in Bend to expanded substantially amid that period. Median home prices in the Bend MSA increased by over 80% in the 2001 05 period. In June 2006, Money periodical titled the Bend MSA the fifth most overpriced real estate market in the United States. By September 2006, the Bend metro region ranked second in the list of most overpriced housing markets, and in June 2007 it was titled the most overpriced housing market in America. The 2008 09 housing downturn had a strong effect on Bend's housing and economic situation.
In May 2010 the Federal Housing and Finance Agency released a report in which Bend had the biggest price drop in the country, 23 percent, from first quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2010. Tower Theatre, Bend, OR - 2012 Bend Amateur Athletic Club Gymnasium Bend is home to the Bend Elks of the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League.
Bend is also the home of the Central Oregon Hotshots of the International Basketball League.
The Central Oregon Steelheaders, continually one of the top squads in the NW conference of the Premier Arena Soccer League (PASL), play at the Central Oregon Indoor Sports Center in Bend.
Bend is the home of the experienced cross-country ski team XC Oregon, which competes in competitions locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Bend recently has had success in landing primary sporting affairs such as the 2008 and 2009 USA Winter Triathlon National Championships, the 2008 and 2009 XTERRA Trail Running National Championships, and the 2009 and 2010 United States National Cyclo-cross Championships as well as the 2009 and 2010 USA Cycling Elite Road National Championships.
A prominent spot for cycling, Bend has over 300 miles (480 km) of mountain bike trails and is the home to the Cascade Cycling Classic, the nation's longest running stage race for road bicycle racing.
Bend was recently titled the top mountain bike town/city in Mountain Bike Action magazine.
Bend features the Bend Roughriders RFC, a men's division 3 Rugby Football Club. Bend's Lava City Roller Dolls became a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association in April, 2009. Bend's Pole Pedal Paddle is one of the Pacific Northwest's premier athletic affairs.
Bend is also home to the Deschutes County Rocks Boxing Team, a USA Boxing Program ran by Level III USA Boxing Coach Richard Miller who is also the Golden Gloves & Silver Gloves President.
Running is also a prominent sport in Bend.
Bend is home to the Cascade Lakes Relay, Bend Beer Chase, Haulin' Aspen Trail Marathon, XTERRA Trail Running National Championships, and the Pilot Butte Challenge.
One of the biggest running clubs in Bend is CORK (central Oregon running klub).
In 2006 Bend was titled the best trail running town/city by Outside magazine, because of 51 miles (82 km) of in-town trails. Runners also appreciate parks such as Shevlin, Tumalo Falls, and Deschutes river trail.
With the opening of the Bend Pavilion ice rink in 2015, Bend established its first USA Hockey sanctioned amateur ice hockey program, the Bend Rapids.
Farewell Bend Park The Bend region is served by Bend La Pine School District.
There are four high schools (Bend, Marshall, Mountain View, and Summit), five middle schools, (Cascade, High Desert, Pilot Butte, Pacific Crest and Sky View), 12 elementary schools, and four magnet schools and one charter school, Bend International School.
There are a several private schools inside the region as well, including Cascades Academy of Central Oregon, Seven Peaks, Waldorf School of Bend, St.
Central Oregon Community College (COCC) and the OSU-Cascades Campus of Oregon State University (OSU) serve the improve with both two- and four-year programs.
Bend Bulletin KBNZ-LD 7 (CBS) - Zolo Media, parent business of Bend Broadband, has purchased KBNZ.
In addition, COTV airs small-town sports, including the Central Oregon Hotshots, Bend Elks, and small-town high school teams.
KCOE 940 AM - Bend Radio Group airs sports programming from ESPN Radio.
KWRX 98.9 FM - non-commercial classical music airways broadcast transmitting to the Bend, Oregon area.
KRXF 92.9 FM - Bend Radio Group commercial undivided rock music airways broadcast in Sunriver, Oregon, with a slogan of "Local.
KXIX 94.1 FM - Bend Radio Group commercial Top 40 music.
KMGX 100.7 FM - Bend Radio Group Hot Adult Contemporary format KLRR 101.7 FM - commercial adult album alternative music airways broadcast in Redmond, Oregon, transmitting to the Bend, Oregon area.
KSJJ 102.9 FM - Bend Radio Group nation music format.
Arbitron rated #1 station in the Bend, Oregon market.
Bend Municipal Airport (KBDN) is positioned 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of the town/city and serves general aviation.
Several momentous general aviation companies are based at Bend Airport, including Precise Flight, which develops oxygen systems, speed brakes, landing lights and other modifications for general aviation airplane , and Epic Aircraft.
The Bend Hawthorne Transit Center is a core for the Cascades East Transit center with connections to intercity bus services including the High - Desert Point, Eastern Point, and the Central Oregon Breeze. Bend was previously the only urbane region west of the Mississippi River without a enhance bus system.
(Bend Area Transit) bus service began on a limited basis.
Bend lies at the intersection of U.S.
The latter runs on an expressway alignment through the town/city known as the Bend Parkway; a company route for US 97 runs along 3rd Street.
Bend has multiple sister cities: Main article: List of citizens from Bend, Oregon "Bend Tourism Letter".
Visit Bend.
"Visit Bend Marketing Plan" (PDF).
Visit Bend.
"Visit Bend Business Plan 2011" (PDF).
Visit Bend.
"Bend Film Festival".
Oregon Solutions Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
"Central Oregon's Top 50 Private Employers" (PDF).
Welcome to the City of Bend Oregon Website - Statistics - Building Division "Bend leads country in home depreciation".
"Bend Rugby".
Bend Rugby.
"Best Outside Towns: Bend, Oregon | Bend".
"Trail Running and Running Events in Bend Oregon".
"Why Aren't Any Of Bend's Big Blue Buses On The Road?".
Bend Bulletin.
City of Bend.
"Bend's New Sister City Belluno, Italy - Cascade Business News".
"Bend Sister City Foundation".
Bend Sister City Foundation.
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City of Bend, Oregon Entry for Bend in the Oregon Blue Book Bend Chamber of Commerce Visit Bend - Bend Visitor and Convention Bureau Bend Beer Chase Bend JOY Project Municipalities and communities of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States
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