Corvallis, Oregon Corvallis, Oregon Location of Corvallis inside Benton County (left) and Benton County inside Oregon (right).
Location of Corvallis inside Benton County (left) and Benton County inside Oregon (right).
Corvallis is positioned in the US Corvallis - Corvallis Website City of Corvallis Corvallis /k r v l s/ is a town/city in central Oregon, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Benton County and the principal town/city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the populace was 54,462. Its populace was estimated by the Portland Research Center to be 55,298 in 2013. Corvallis is the locale of Oregon State University, a large Hewlett-Packard research campus, and Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
At a longitude of 123 17' west, the town/city is the westernmost town/city in the adjoining 48 states with a populace larger than 50,000.
Avery appeared in Oregon from the east. Avery took out a territory claim at the mouth of Marys River where it flows into the Willamette River and in June 1846 took up residence there in a log cabin hastily constructed to hold what seemed a potentially lucrative claim. Avery's primitive 1846 dwelling was the first home inside the boundaries of today's Corvallis and his territory claim encompassed the southern section of the intact city. Dixon. The discernment of gold in California in 1848 temporarily stalled evolution of a township, with Avery leaving his Oregon claim to try his hand at quarrying in the fall of that year. His stay would prove to be brief and in January 1849 Avery returned to Oregon with a small stock of provisions with a view to opening a store. During the year 1849, Avery opened his store at the site, platted the land, and surveyed a town site on his territory claim, naming the improve Marysville. It is possible that the town/city was titled after early settler Mary Lloyd, but now the name is thought to be derived from French fur trappers' naming of Marys Peak after the Virgin Mary. In December 1853 the 5th Oregon Territorial Legislature met in Salem, where a petition was presented seeking to change the name of that town/city to either "Thurston" or "Valena." At the same time, another petition was presented seeking to change the name of Salem to "Corvallis," from the Latin meaning "heart of the valley," while a third resolution was presented to the upper home seeking the change the name of Marysville to Corvallis. A faction inside the deeply divided council sought to make Corvallis the capital of the Oregon Territory, and in December 1855 the 6th Territorial Legislature initially convened there before returning to Salem later that month the town which would eventually be chose as the permanent seat of state government. Corvallis was incorporated as a town/city on January 29, 1857. Nineteenth-century Corvallis saw a three-year boom beginning in 1889, which began with the establishment of a privately owned electrical plant by L.L.
Hurd. A flurry of publicity and enhance and private investment followed, including assembly of a grand county courthouse, planning and first assembly of a new street stockyards , assembly of a new flour foundry along the river between Monroe and Jackson Avenues, and assembly of the Hotel Corvallis, today known as the Julian Hotel. In addition a carriage factory was launched in the town/city and the town's streets were improved, while the size of the town/city was twice enlarged through annexation. Bonds were issued for a city-owned water works, a sewage system, and for enhance ownership of the electric plant. A publicity campaign was launched to attempt to grew the tax base through new assembly for new arrivals. This accomplishment proved mostly unsuccessful, however, and in 1892 normalcy returned, with the town/city saddled with about $150,000 in bonded debt. Corvallis is at an altitude of 235 feet (72 m) above sea level. Situated midway in the Willamette Valley, Corvallis is about 46 miles (74 km) east of Newport and the Oregon Coast, 85 miles (137 km) south of Portland, 30 miles (48 km) south of the state capital, Salem, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Albany, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Interstate 5 at its closest point, and 48 miles (77 km) north of Eugene/Springfield.
Oregon Route 99 - W, a secondary north south route, also runs through Corvallis.
Route 20 (which leads to Newport) and Oregon Route 34 (which leads to Waldport about 56 miles (90 km) to the west) both secondary East-West routes run through Corvallis from the Oregon Coast.
Corvallis is at river mile 131 32 of the Willamette River. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.30 square miles (37.04 km2), of which 14.13 square miles (36.60 km2) is territory and 0.17 square miles (0.44 km2) is water. Corvallis Metropolitan Travel Destination Like the rest of the Willamette Valley, Corvallis falls inside the dry-summer subtropical climate zone, also referred to as cool-summer Mediterranean (Koppen Csb).
This is due to Corvallis lying right on the easterly edge of the Oregon Coast Range, with a small portion of the town inside of the range.
Rainfall amounts can range from an average of 66.40 inches (168.7 cm) per year in the far northwest hills, compared to 43.66 inches (110.9 cm) per year at Oregon State University which is positioned in the center of Corvallis.
Because of its close adjacency to the coastal range, Corvallis can experience slightly cooler temperatures, especially in the hills, than the rest of the Willamette Valley.
Climate data for Corvallis, Oregon (Oregon State University) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) .9 1.1 .2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .1 .8 3.1 Corvallis is the biggest principal town/city of the Albany-Corvallis-Lebanon CSA, a Combined Travel Destination that includes the Corvallis urbane region (Benton County) and the Albany-Lebanon micropolitan region (Linn County), which had a combined populace of 202,251 at the 2010 U.S.
1870 1906), a German-American theological prestige who called himself Joshua, established a boss in Corvallis which became known locally as the "Holy Rollers".
A 2003 study, released once every 10 years, listed Benton County (of which Corvallis makes up the majority of the population) as the least theological county per capita in the United States.
The ground of Oregon State University, which is the primary small-town employer, is positioned near the edge of the chief downtown area.
Because of this relative concentration of employment and the need for range, the town/city launched a website to attract creative trade to the region by branding it with the slogan "Yes Corvallis". The National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Corvallis is a gene bank of the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.
Corvallis, Oregon was ranked #48 on the 100 best places in the USA to live and launch a company by Fortune Small Business 2008. This places Corvallis as the second best place in Oregon to launch a business, after Portland (#6).
She holds the distinct ion of being the first female mayor of Corvallis, as well as the longest-serving mayor of the town/city to date. Two members of the Corvallis town/city council are members of the Green Party. The current mayor is Biff Traber, propel in 2014. Corvallis Farmers' Market As the home of Oregon State University, Corvallis is the home for 17 NCAA Division I OSU squads (7 men's, 10 women's) in the Pac-12 Conference.
Corvallis is also the home of the Corvallis Knights baseball team, who play in the summer at OSU's Goss Stadium.
Corvallis is recognized as a Tree City USA.
The town/city has at least 47 enhance parks inside and adjoining to the town/city limits. Education has had a place in Corvallis since the earliest days of the town, with the first school building constructed in 1848 and put to use in 1850. During the first decade of the 21st century, small-town boosters claimed that Corvallis had the highest education rate per capita of any town/city in the state of Oregon. Public schools in the town/city are administered by the Corvallis School District.
Corvallis is also the home of Oregon State University and the Benton Center ground of Linn-Benton Community College.
Corvallis Gazette-Times, daily journal The Corvallis Advocate, a no-charge alternative newsweekly focusing on science and art. The Daily Barometer, the Oregon State University ground journal Corvallis is part of the Eugene, Oregon, radio and tv market.
It stops at the Greyhound station in downtown Corvallis (station ID: CVI.) Local bus service is provided by Corvallis Transit System (CTS).
In January 2011, the Corvallis City Council allowed an additional fee on monthly water utility bills allowing all CTS bus service to turn into fareless. The fitness runs a total of eight daytime routes Monday through Saturday, covering most of the town/city and converging at a Downtown Transit Center.
When Oregon State University is in session, CTS also runs the "Night Owl," a set of late-night routes running Thursday through Saturday.
From 2010 to 2011, CTS has seen a 37.87% increase in ridership, partially as a result of going fareless and "the rising cost of fuel for individual vehicles and the desire for inhabitants to choose more sustainable options for commuting to work, school and other activities" According to Tim Bates the Corvallis Transit System and Philomath Connection, had 3,621,387 passenger miles traveled and 85,647 gallons of fuel consumed in Fiscal Year 2011, a reconstructionthat covers July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011. This means that riders in Fiscal Year 2011 got 42.28 passenger miles per gallon.
The League of American Bicyclists gave Corvallis a gold rating as a Bicycle-Friendly Community in 2011. Also, as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau's 2008 12 American Community Survey, 11.2 percent of workers in Corvallis bicycle to work.
The town/city of Corvallis is ranked third highest among 'small' U.S.
Corvallis Municipal Airport serves private and corporate airplane .
Corvallis Fire & Rescue The city's water fitness contains two water treatment plants, nine processed water reservoirs, one raw water reservoir, and some 210 miles (340 km) of pipe.
According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency report on its "green power communities," Corvallis is among the top metros/cities in the country in terms of buying electricity produced from renewable resources.
Corvallis purchases more than 126 million kilowatt-hours of green power annually, which amounts to 21 percent of the city's total purchased electricity. As of 2012 the Corvallis Fire Department is headed by Chief Roy Emery and presently has six fire stations. This list excludes persons whose only connection to Corvallis is attendance or employment at Oregon State University.
See also: List of Oregon State University citizens Bernard Malamud, author, the setting for whose book A New Life was based on Corvallis Linus Pauling (1901 1994), 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize recipient (Graduated from Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University) Corvallis has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Fagan, History of Benton County, Oregon: Including...
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