Milwaukie, Oregon "Milwaukie"
Milwaukie Milwaukie, Oregon Milwaukie City Hall Milwaukie City Hall Flag of Milwaukie Flag Official seal of Milwaukie Milwaukie /m l w ki / is a town/city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
A very small portion of the town/city extends into Multnomah County. The populace was 20,291 at the 2010 census.
Founded in 1847 on the banks of the Willamette River, the city, known as the Dogwood City of the West, was incorporated in 1903 and is noted as the place of birth of the Bing cherry.
The town/city is now a suburb of Portland and also adjoins the unincorporated areas of Clackamas and Oak Grove.
Milwaukie was settled in 1847 and formally platted in 1849 as a rival to the upriver Oregon City by Lot Whitcomb, who titled it for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
At the time, the Wisconsin town/city was also incessantly spelled "Milwaukie" before the current spelling was adopted. Some accounts also state that the Oregon town/city used an alternate spelling to prevent confusion at the postal service. Whitcomb appeared in Oregon in 1848 and settled on a donation territory claim, where he assembled a sawmill and a gristmill. Milwaukie rivaled Portland and Oregon City for a time, but Portland eventually became the bigger town/city because it had a deeper port. The first postal service at Milwaukie was established in 1850, with Whitcomb as the first postmaster. The improve was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 4, 1903, originally as the Town of Milwaukie. The Oregon and California Railroad titled their station there Milwaukee in 1870 and corrected it to Milwaukie in 1892. As the town/city center interval further from the barns and a branch line was assembled across the Willamette to Oswego, Milwaukie station was replaced and retitled Lambert for Joseph H.
Lambert, a pioneer orchardist who advanced the Lambert cherry. The name of the station was changed to East Milwaukee in 1913 and corrected to East Milwaukie in 1916. The Bing cherry, among other varieties, was advanced in Milwaukie by another pioneer orchardist, Seth Lewelling, who settled in the region with his brother Henderson Luelling. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.85 square miles (12.56 km2), of which, 4.82 square miles (12.48 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 20,291 citizens , 8,667 homeholds, and 5,075 families residing in the city.
There were 8,667 homeholds of which 27.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.5% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.2% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.4% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 39.9 years.
As of the census of 2000, there were 20,490 citizens , 8,561 homeholds, and 5,282 families residing in the city.
There were 8,561 homeholds out of which 28.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.8% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.3% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 31.2% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $43,635, and the median income for a family was $51,649.
Currently, the downtown region of Milwaukie is undergoing a revival in which new apartements and retail space are under assembly and a riverfront park is being developed. Existing attractions include a Sunday farmers' market and restaurants, coffee shops and stores. Milwaukie is the home of Dark Horse Comics.
The total office space of Dark Horse Comics is situated in three of the town/city blocks in downtown Milwaukie, sporting various display windows visible to transit riders. According to Milwaukie's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: Milwaukie High School entrance Milwaukie is served by the North Clackamas School District and most kids attend one of ten enhance elementary schools, four enhance middle schools, Rex Putnam High School, Milwaukie High School, and New Urban High School.
Since 1996, Milwaukie High School has annually hosted the nationally recognized Living History Day.
The town/city is home to the Ledding Library, a enhance library that is part of the Library Information Network of Clackamas County.
Milwaukie is inside the Tri - Met transit precinct and is served by a several Tri - Met bus lines. Tri - Met established a transit center in downtown Milwaukie in 1981, served by as many as 12 routes (in 2000), using on-street stops around the intersection of Jackson Street and 21st Avenue, next to Milwaukie City Hall.
Since 2010, the bus stops that previously comprised Milwaukie TC are no longer designated as a "transit center" by Tri - Met.
Tri - Met's MAX Light Rail service was extended to Milwaukie on September 12, 2015. Construction of the MAX Orange Line, a light-rail connection between Portland and Milwaukie, began in 2011. Although this universal was prepared for many years, it faced strong opposition by opponents of "Portland Creep"; in September 2012, opponents succeeded in passing a ballot initiative requiring that all Clackamas County spending on light rail be directly allowed by the voters. The 7.3-mile (11.7 km) line was sufficiently complete by May 15, 2015, for 500 passengers to make an initial special run along its whole length. Regular passenger service began four months later. Streetcars began serving Milwaukie in August 1892, when the East Side Railway Company extended its service beyond the then-town of Sellwood. The business assembled a carbarn and workshop in downtown Milwaukie, on Jackson Street at River Road (now Mc - Loughlin Blvd.
At that location), which opened in December 1892. The following year, the business extended its line to Oregon City, and interurban service between Portland and Oregon City via Milwaukie began operating. During the a several decades after 1900, a succession of other private companies, including the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company, directed the streetcar and interurban service to and through the town. All interurban service was discontinued in January 1958. At the time, the Portland Milwaukie Oregon City and Portland Sellwood Bellrose lines had been the last streetcar or interurban service operating in the Portland urbane area, and not until 1986 did interurban service return in the form of MAX (light rail) between Portland and Gresham. Oregon Motor Stages, Inc., had provided some bus service through Milwaukie until 1954, when it abruptly ceased all operation. Replacement transit-bus service was introduced in 1955 by Intercity Buses, Inc., a member of a consortium of four bus companies collectively known as the "Blue Bus" lines, and Intercity period its service after the 1958 abandonment of the rail service. Tri - Met, a new government-owned enhance transit authority, was established in 1969, and in September 1970 it took over all of the "Blue Bus" companies. Tri - Met has been the major provider of transit service in Milwaukie since that time.
Amtrak passenger trains pass through Milwaukie without stopping.
However, for a brief reconstructionin the early 1980s an experimental Amtrak service titled the Willamette Valley Express made a regular stop in Milwaukie, just east of the intersection of Harrison Street and Highway 224 (a locale Amtrak referred to as East Milwaukie). The service, which ran twice a day in each direction and connected Portland with Eugene, was introduced on a trial basis in August 1980 and discontinued at the end of 1981. Main article: List of mayors of Milwaukie, Oregon Current mayor Mark Gamba took office on May 19, 2015, previously serving on the Milwaukie City Council. Milwaukie has one sister town/city United States Enumeration Bureau.
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