Redmond, Oregon Redmond Redmond, Oregon Business Highway 97 in Redmond Business Highway 97 in Redmond Official seal of Redmond State Oregon Redmond is a town/city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States.
Incorporated on July 6, 1910, the town/city is on the easterly side of Oregon's Cascade Range, in the High Desert in Central Oregon.
From Redmond there is access to recreational opportunities, including mountain biking, fishing, hiking, camping, modern climbing, white-water rafting, skiing, and golf.
Redmond is a full-service municipality and one of the fastest-growing industrialized and residentiary communities in Oregon.
Redmond had a populace of 26,215 in 2010, and the populace continues to expanded at a rate of about 8 percent each year.
Redmond is 15 miles (24 km) north of Bend the governmental center of county of Deschutes County 144 miles (232 km) from Portland, 129 miles (208 km) from Salem the capital of Oregon and 126 miles (203 km) from Eugene.
Redmond was titled after Frank T.
Redmond, who settled in the region in 1905. It was platted in 1906 by a business which would turn into part of Central Oregon Irrigation District building a canal. Electrification and the Oregon Trunk Railway reached Redmond in 1911.
In the 1940s, Redmond was a U.S.
Between 2000 and 2006, Redmond's populace interval 74.3%, making it among Oregon's fastest-growing metros/cities each year.
The Horse Lava Tube System enters the town/city at the point of the Redmond Caves.
The lava flow that created the fitness continues into the Redmond Canyon and beyond. Redmond's climate is typical of the high desert with cool evenings and sunny days.
Annual rain averages between 8 and 10 inches (200 and 250 mm), with an average annual snow flurry of 24 inches (61 cm).
The winter season in Redmond provides typical daytime temperatures between 10 F ( 12 C) and 40 F (4 C).
Average eveningtime temperatures range anywhere from 0 F ( 18 C) to 40 F (4 C).
According to the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, the average annual extreme minimum temperature in Redmond is 5 F ( 21 C) to 10 F ( 23 C). A typical Central Oregon summer is marked with daily temperatures around 75 F (24 C) to 100 F (38 C) amid the day, and around 40 F (4 C) to 60 F (16 C) amid the evening. Hard frosts happen on occasion amid the summer months.
According to the Western Regional Climate Center of the Desert Research Institute, the mean of the monthly average maximum temperatures in July, the hottest month in Redmond, between 1928 and 2006 was 82.09 F (27.83 C). Redmond's burgeoning season is short.
Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service, in half of the years between 1971 and 2000, the USDA weather station in Redmond recorded the last below-freezing temperatures after July 3 and the first below-freezing temperatures before August 31. Redmond has a steppe climate (BSk) as stated to the Koppen climate classification system.
Climate data for Redmond Average high F ( C) 41.7 Average low F ( C) 22.2 Average rain days 9 7 8 7 7 6 3 3 4 6 9 9 78 There were 9,947 homeholds of which 38.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 31.7% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.07. The average homehold size was 2.54 and the average family size 3.02. A primary employer is Redmond Air Center, at the Redmond Airport.
PCC-Schlosser is one burgeoning manufacturing zone in Redmond, employing over 200 in the manufacture of titanium castings for the aerospace and medical markets. T-Mobile USA had a call center in Redmond which working more than 700. T-Mobile made plans to close this facility in June 2013, but Oregon-based Consumer Cellular moved to sublease the call center and rehire some of T-Mobile's former employees. The Consumer Cellular call center presently employs more than 200 citizens , with plans to expanded the facility to 650 employees. The Redmond Spokesman journal is the city's earliest continuously operating business, printing its first copy July 14, 1910.
Publishers Henry and Clara Palmer moved their press for the Laidlaw Chronicle to Redmond, competing with the existing Oregon Hub and Enterprise newspapers, now defunct. The Eagle Crest Resort, 6 miles (10 km) west of Redmond, is one of eight destination resorts as defined by Oregon's Department of Land Conservation and Development.
Eagle Crest is one of Redmond's primary employers, and one of Deschutes County's biggest corporate tax payers. Redmond School District encompasses 556 square miles (1,400 km2) and operates 11 schools: 7 elementary schools along with 2 middle schools, 2 high schools (Redmond and Ridgeview), and 1 private Christian school serving grades pre-kindergarten to 12.
Redmond's total enrollment on September 26, 2006, was 6,892.
Redmond is also home of the Redmond Proficiency Academy, a 6 12 charter school serving students from Redmond and the greater Central Oregon area.
Redmond School District elementary schools serve grades K 5, middle school grades 6 8 and high school 9 12.
Redmond is the locale of the region's only commercial airline service airport, Roberts Field.
Redmond lies at the intersection of U.S.
The latter runs on an expressway alignment through the town/city known as the Redmond Parkway.
The Redmond Caves Some of Redmond's landmark desert flora include: House of Representatives from Oregon's First District, interval up in Redmond, attending the city's enhance schools from the first undertaking until graduation from Redmond Union High School (as it was called then) in 1960.
Sam Johnson, a longtime member of the Oregon House of Representatives, was propel mayor of Redmond in 1979 and served in that capacity until his death in 1984. Arthur Tuck, an American track and field athlete who singlehandedly won the 1919 Oregon state high school track and field team championship for Redmond High School. Tom Mc - Call, the 30th Governor of Oregon (from 1967 to 1975), graduated from Redmond High School. a b c d e f g h i j "American Fact - Finder".
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Media related to Redmond, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons City of Redmond (official website) Entry for Redmond in the Oregon Blue Book Redmond Chamber of Commerce Municipalities and communities of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States State of Oregon
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