Forest Grove, Oregon Forest Grove Forest Grove, Oregon Pacific Avenue in downtown Forest Grove Pacific Avenue in downtown Forest Grove Official seal of Forest Grove Forest Grove is positioned in the US Forest Grove - Forest Grove Website City of Forest Grove Forest Grove is a town/city in Washington County, Oregon, United States, 25 miles (40 km) west of Portland.
Located in the Tualatin Valley, Oregon routes 8, and 47 pass through Forest Grove with 47 and 8 signed as the Tualatin Valley Highway south and east of the chief part of the city, in the order given, Oregon Route 8 signed as Gales Creek Road west of the city, and Oregon Route 47 signed as the Nehalem Highway north of the city.
Local employers include the college as well as Tuality Forest Grove Hospital.
Forest Grove, 1909 Prior to the 1840s when Euro-Americans settled the area, the Atfalati band of the Kalapuya Native American tribe lived on the Tualatin Plains in what is now Forest Grove. In 1841, Alvin T.
And Abigail Smith were among the earliest to use the Oregon Trail and settled on what was first known as West Tualatin Plain. They overwintered with Henry Harmon Spalding, arriving in what is now Forest Grove in the fall.
According to Oregon Geographic Names, the name Forest Grove was chose on January 10, 1851, at a meeting of the trustees of Tualatin Academy (later known as Pacific University).
Quinn Thornton suggested the name, which he also had used for the name of his homestead. The name referred to a grove of oak trees that still stand on what is now the ground of the university. Previous postal services in the region were called Tuality Plains and Tualatin, with Forest Grove adopted on December 31, 1858. The town/city was platted in 1850.
In 1860, the populace reached 430, but declined to 396 in 1870. Forest Grove was incorporated by the state in 1872, the first in the county. In 1880, the now Chemawa Indian School opened in the town/city to train Native Americans, but moved to Salem in 1884.
In November 1908, the Oregon Electric Railway (OE) began serving the city, and in January 1914, competitor Southern Pacific (SP) followed suit, opening its own line, separate from OE's. Both barns s provided freight and passenger service, SP's passenger service being known as the Red Electric.
A business called the Forest Grove Transportation Company directed small-town streetcar service, but this lasted only from 1906 11. The Red Electric passenger service to Forest Grove ended in 1929 and Oregon Electric's ceased in 1932. In the 1990s, recording for the tv show, Nowhere Man, took place in Forest Grove various times. Forest Grove is positioned on the edge of the Portland urbane region and the Willamette Valley.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.88 square miles (15.23 km2), of which 5.74 square miles (14.87 km2) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) is water. One of the biggest enormous sequoia trees of the state of Oregon can be found in Forest Grove. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Forest Grove has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. Climate data for Forest Grove As of the census of 2010, there were 21,083 citizens , 7,385 homeholds, and 4,871 families residing in the city.
There were 7,845 housing units at an average density of 1,366.7 per square mile (527.7/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 78.8% White, 0.8% African American, 1.1% Native American, 2.6% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 12.5% from other competitions, and 3.9% from two or more competitions.
There were 7,385 homeholds of which 37.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 50.1% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 34.0% were non-families.
27.0% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 12.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.31. The median age in the town/city was 32.7 years.
26.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 13.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.6% were from 25 to 44; 22.2% were from 45 to 64; and 12.3% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 17,708 citizens , 6,336 homeholds, and 4,131 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 81.46% White, 0.43% African American, 0.89% Native American, 2.11% Asian, 0.24% Pacific Islander, 11.39% from other competitions, and 3.47% from two or more competitions.
There are 6,336 homeholds out of which 35.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 50.3% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.8% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.24. In the town/city the populace was spread out with 27.4% under the age of 18, 13.4% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 16.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $40,135, and the median income for a family was $47,733.
About 10.4% of families and 14.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 16.2% of those under age 18 and 11.4% of those age 65 or over. The principal landmark of Forest Grove is Pacific University, a private school of higher education.
Forest Grove, as well as Cornelius, Gales Creek, and Dilley, are all part of the Forest Grove School District.
Forest Grove is inside the Tri - Met district, and enhance transit service is provided by Tri - Met's bus line 57-TV Highway/Forest Grove, which operates seven days a week. Line 57 joins the town/city with Hillsboro and Beaverton, via the Tualatin Valley Highway, and links Forest Grove with the Portland region's light rail fitness (MAX) in Hillsboro.
Yamhill County Transit Area (YCTA) bus line 33-Hillsboro/MAX also stops in Forest Grove weekdays, at the intersection of Pacific Avenue & Highway 47 (Quince Street), and runs from Hillsboro to Gaston, Cove Orchard, Yamhill, Carlton & Mc - Minnville via Highway 47, where riders can transfer to other YCTA buses running throughout Yamhill County. Forest Grove has one sister city, positioned in Japan: Forest Grove Leader Tuality Forest Grove Hospital a b c d e f g h "American Fact - Finder".
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