Ontario, Oregon Ontario Ontario, Oregon State Oregon Website City of Ontario Ontario is the biggest city in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.
The populace was 11,366 at the 2010 census. The town/city is the biggest improve in the region of far easterly Oregon, also known as the Western Treasure Valley.
Ontario is the principal town/city of the Ontario, OR-ID Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Malheur County in Oregon and Payette County in Idaho.
Ontario is approximately halfway between Portland and Salt Lake City.
The city's slogan is "Where Oregon Begins".
Ontario was established on June 11, 1883, by developers William Morfitt, Mary Richardson, Daniel Smith, and James Virtue.
In March 1884, Richard Welch started a postal service for the quarter of Ontario, so titled by James Virtue after Ontario, Canada.
Unfortunately for Morton and Scott, merchants Morfitt and Richardson of Malheur City, gold miner Virtue, and lumberman Smith of Baker City acquired more territory and were better financed.
More importantly, Morfitt had negotiated a train depot for Ontario.
All the pioneer and speculators knew the barns was coming and how meaningful that would be to Ontario's future so Scott closed his Morton postal service and assembled a hotel at present-day Ontario.
By December, Scott was Ontario's postmaster.
Soon after, stock began arriving from Eastern Oregon's cattle ranches to Ontario's stockyard for transshipment to markets throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Ontario became one of the biggest demolished in the West.
In addition, the assembly of the Nevada Ditch and other canals aided the burgeoning agricultural industry, adding those products to Ontario's exports.
Ontario was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 11, 1899. A town/city by the time of World War II, Ontario Mayor Elmo Smith allowed Japanese Americans to settle at a time when much of the West Coast supported their exclusion.
A populace of about 134 in the town/city and encircling county before the war ballooned to 1,000 as the county recruited farm workers amid the war. Storm clouds leaving amid a sunset over wheat fields in Ontario, Oregon.
Ontario is positioned at an altitude of 2,150 feet (660 m) above sea level.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.17 square miles (13.39 km2), all of it land. Ontario has a cold desert dry-summer continental climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. Climate data for Ontario, OR Downtown Ontario As of the census of 2010, there were 11,366 citizens , 4,275 homeholds, and 2,678 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 69.5% White, 0.7% African American, 1.3% Native American, 2.2% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 22.6% from other competitions, and 3.5% from two or more competitions.
There were 4,275 homeholds of which 35.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.3% were married couples living together, 16.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 37.4% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 32.1 years.
28.9% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 12.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23% were from 25 to 44; 21% were from 45 to 64; and 14.9% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 69.27% White, 0.55% African American, 2.69% Asian, 0.88% Native American, 0.15% Pacific Islander, 23.09% from other competitions, and 3.39% from two or more competitions.
There were 4,084 homeholds out of which 35.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.4% were married couples living together, 13.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 35.5% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.5% under the age of 18, 11.5% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 16.4% of families and 20.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 29.0% of those under age 18 and 14.3% of those age 65 or over.
Heinz Company, processes locally grown potatoes, and annually produces over 600,000,000 pounds (270,000,000 kg) of 75 different potato products, while employing approximately 1,000. Ontario also has a burgeoning retail-based economy which attracts shoppers from throughout the county and from Idaho's Payette County, especially from the close-by cities of Payette, Fruitland, and New Plymouth.
Ontario also attracts employees, who benefit from a minimum wage that as of 2012 was 21% higher than the one paid in Idaho.
Alphonsus Medical Center is a 49-bed, acute-care hospital, serving Ontario and the encircling communities in Eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho; it is part of the hospital fitness of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Ontario is served by the Ontario School District (8 - C) enhance schools and by private schools.
Ontario High School 9-12 Ontario Middle School 7-8 Ontario's daily paper is the Argus Observer.
Snake River Transit provides enhance transit between points in Ontario and close-by Fruitland and Payette. Ontario is a stop on the Eastern POINT intercity bus line between Bend and Ontario.
Ontario Municipal Airport Elmo Smith, journal editor, mayor of Ontario and governor of Oregon Ontario has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International: United States Enumeration Bureau.
The State of Oregon General and Special Laws and Joint Resolutions and Memorials Enacted and Adopted by the Twentieth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly.
Salem, Oregon: State Printer: 683.
Ontario Chamber of Commerce, History "Ontario, Oregon Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
Worksource Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development - Workforce Partners "Ontario School District: Our District".
"Ontario, Oregon".
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Ontario (Oregon).
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ontario, Oregon.
Ontario Chamber of Commerce Ontario knowledge from the Oregon Blue Book Panoramic photos of Ontario from the Library of Congress 1930s-1940s farming photos of Ontario from the Library of Congress Municipalities and communities of Malheur County, Oregon, United States State of Oregon
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