Keizer, Oregon Keizer, Oregon Keizer Station shopping center in Keizer Keizer Station shopping center in Keizer Coordinates: 45 0 2 N 123 1 19 WCoordinates: 45 0 2 N 123 1 19 W Website City of Keizer Keizer / ka z r/ is a town/city located in Marion County, Oregon, United States, along the 45th alongside.

As of the 2010 United States Census, its populace was 36,478.

Further floods in 1943, 1945, 1946 and 1948 hampered the expansion of the community, and it was not until dams were assembled in the 1950s to regulate the flow of the Willamette that Keizer began to flourish.

Many times the City of Salem tried to annex the burgeoning improve adjoining to its town/city limits. Beginning in 1964, a number of Keizer inhabitants tried to convince the citizens of Keizer that it would be cheaper and better to form their own city.

It was not until November 2, 1982, when, with the support of the close-by unincorporated improve of Clear Lake, inhabitants voted to make Keizer a city. Keizer Bottom is now the site of Keizer Rapids Park, a enhance park whose attractions include a dog park, playground, boat-in camping, nature trails, a disc golf course, and sport courts.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.21 square miles (18.67 km2), of which, 7.09 square miles (18.36 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 36,478 citizens , 13,703 homeholds, and 9,498 families residing in the city.

There were 13,703 homeholds of which 36.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.0% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.0% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 30.7% were non-families.

27.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.6% were from 25 to 44; 24.7% were from 45 to 64; and 13.3% were 65 years of age or older.

As of the census of 2000, there were 32,203 citizens , 12,110 homeholds, and 8,646 families residing in the city.

There were 12,110 homeholds out of which 35.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 55.8% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 28.6% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was 27.7% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older.

For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.2 males The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $45,052, and the median income for a family was $49,977.

The annual Iris Festival takes place in May and showcases Keizer's iris-growing industry. The festival was established by Schreiner's Iris Gardens, one of the country's biggest retail iris growers, and has been facilitated by the Keizer Chamber of Commerce since 1987. Events include a carnival, a beer garden, craft and food vendors, a 5k walk/run, a vintage car show, and a parade. Every year from the beginning of December until the day after Christmas the Gubser school neighborhood hosts the "Keizer Miracle of Christmas Lighting Display." The Keizer Heritage Museum is inside the Keizer Heritage Community Center, which was formerly the Keizer School. The school, assembled in 1916, has been completely restored and is the only enhance historic building in Keizer. Other tenants of the building include the Keizer Community Library, the Keizer Art Association and loggia, and the Keizer Chamber of Commerce. In addition to minor league baseball, Volcanoes Stadium has hosted the OSAA baseball championship and a Civil War baseball game between the University of Oregon Ducks and Oregon State University Beavers.

Keizer has been a long supporter of its lone high school's sports teams, the Mc - Nary Celtics.

The school has won multiple state titles in recent years, the last coming in 2009 when the baseball team won the state championship in Volcanoes Stadium. Keizer is part of the Salem-Keizer School District and has one high school: Mc - Nary, two middle schools: Claggett Creek and Whiteaker, and seven elementary schools: Clear Lake, Cummings, Forest Ridge, Gubser, Keizer, Kennedy and Weddle. The first schoolhouse in the Keizer region was assembled in 1878, and its first teacher was Nina Mc - Nary, older sister of U.S.

Mc - Nary. The first school was torn down in 1915 and replaced in 1916 with the building that now serves as the Keizer Heritage Community Center. By the 1980s, the 1916 Keizer Elementary School was assessed unsafe and a new school was assembled in 1987. Cummings School was assembled in 1953 to serve the area's burgeoning population. In 1955, Keizer School District #88 and Salem School District # 24 - CJ consolidated to form the Salem Keizer School District. The Keizer Story (Keizur).

"Keizer's First Families, Part 1".

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Oregon: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).

"Keizer Iris Festival".

"Keizer Chamber of Commerce Business Plan 2006-2009" (PDF).

"Keizer Heritage Museum".

Keizer Heritage Foundation.

Salem Keizer Public Schools.

Keizer Heritage Foundation.

Media related to Keizer, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons Entry for Keizer in the Oregon Blue Book Municipalities and communities of Marion County, Oregon, United States

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