Boardman, Oregon Boardman, Oregon State Oregon Boardman is a town/city in Morrow County, Oregon, United States on the Columbia River and Interstate 84.
Boardman is in northeastern Oregon, along Interstate 84 south of the Columbia River. The town/city is 308 feet (94 m) above sea level. It is 25 miles (40 km) west of Hermiston and 164 miles (264 km) east of Portland. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.17 square miles (10.80 km2), of which, 3.79 square miles (9.82 km2) is territory and 0.38 square miles (0.98 km2) is water. Boardman was homesteaded in 1903, by Samuel Herbert Boardman, the first superintendent of the Oregon State Parks System. Boardman and his wife worked for 13 years to precarious irrigation for their land; amid those years his wife taught school, and Boardman at times worked on barns assembly projects.
The Union Pacific Railroad passed through Boardman, where it had a station.
The improve was platted in 1916 at about the same time Samuel Boardman went to work for the Oregon State Highway Department and became involved in the evolution of roadside parks. The Boardman postal service opened in 1916. The town/city was incorporated in 1921. During assembly of the John Day Dam on the Columbia River in the 1960s, the town/city had to be moved south, further from the water.
As of the census of 2010, there were 3,220 citizens , 964 homeholds, and 759 families residing in the city.
There were 1,017 housing units at an average density of 268.3 per square mile (103.6/km2).
There were 964 homeholds, of which 53.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were married couples living together, 14.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 9.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 21.3% were non-families.
14.7% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 3.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The median age in the town/city was 27.5 years.
35.1% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 11.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 28.9% were from 25 to 44; 18.8% were from 45 to 64; and 5.8% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 947 housing units at an average density of 264.8 per square mile (102.1/km ).
There were 853 homeholds out of which 53.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 57.4% were married couples living together, 14.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 19.5% were non-families.
14.7% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 4.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the town the populace was spread out with 38.1% under the age of 18, 11.0% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 15.0% from 45 to 64, and 5.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Boardman Airport, owned by the Port of Morrow, is 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of the city.
Coal plant outside of Boardman In 2013, the five biggest employers in Boardman are Lamb Weston (potato products) (370 employees); Oregon Potato Company (125); Portland General Electric (PGE) (113); the Morrow County School District (106), and Boardman Foods (100). The Port of Morrow, Oregon's second-largest port, is adjoining to the town/city and positioned on the Columbia Riverfront.
The port property also includes two (PGE) gas-fired power plants. PGE also has a coal-fired power plant in the Boardman area; opened in 1980, it is scheduled to be shut down by 2020. The Umatilla Chemical Depot, which includes the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, is 10 miles (16 km) east of the city, northwest of the intersection of I-84 and Interstate 82.
Seven miles east of Boardman is the Irrigon Hatchery.
According to a November 2008 article in The Oregonian, a "huge data center linked to Amazon.com under construction" at the 9,000-acre (36 km2) Port of Morrow.
The data center was to have a dedicated 10-megawatt electrical substation. A website concentrated on data centers suggested the Boardman site was created in response to the rapid expansion of Amazon Web Services; earlier in 2008, Amazon had announced that Amazon S3 was storing 29 billion objects. The universal made Boardman the second Oregon town/city along the Columbia River to host a power-hungry data center for web services: Google has a similar center in The Dalles. By 2012, Apple had announced plans for a server farm south of The Dalles in Prineville, where Facebook already had a similar farm.
Since 2007, Pacific Ethanol has directed an ethanol plant in Boardman.
It can produce up to 40 million US gallons (150,000,000 L) of ethanol a year from grains. Zea - Chem has assembled a demonstration biorefinery at the Port of Morrow with a capacity of up to 250,000 US gallons (950,000 L) of ethanol a year from wood waste. The business hopes to build a much larger commercial refinery with a capacity of 25 million US gallons (95,000,000 L) annually. However, in April 2013, less than a month after start-up at the demonstration plant, Zea - Chem halted production, citing funding problems. The business plans to resume manufacturing if financial backing can be found. It would ship the coal by train to Boardman, where it would be loaded on barges and hauled down the Columbia River to the Port of St.
To export coal athwart Oregon in the way Ambre proposes, the business will also need approval from the Oregon Department of State Lands and the U.S.
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