Silverton, Oregon Silverton, Oregon Cafes, coffee shops, and restaurants overlook Silver Creek from North Water Street in downtown Silverton Cafes, coffee shops, and restaurants overlook Silver Creek from North Water Street in downtown Silverton Silverton is a town/city in Marion County, Oregon, United States.
The town/city is titled after Silver Creek, which flows through the town from Silver Falls into the Pudding River, and thence into the Willamette River.
Silverton was originally called Milford, then Silver Creek; on July 16, 1855, Silver Creek became Silverton. Human surroundingion of the Silverton region extends back approximately 6,000 years before the present.
In historical times, the region was dominated by the Kalapuya and Molala citizens s, whose cyclic burns of the region made it plow-ready and attractive to early 19th century Euro-American settlers. Farming was Silverton's first primary industry, and has been a dominant land-use activeness in and around Silverton since the mid-19th century. Silverton is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the populace core of the Silver Falls School District.
Silverton is situated on the easterly edge of the Willamette Valley, a fertile and alluvial plain which stretches from the foothills of the Cascade Range on the east, known as the Waldo Hills, to the easterly foothills of the Oregon Coast Range on the west. Silverton lies on either side of Silver Creek, a tributary of the Pudding River, which joins the Molalla River before emptying into the northward-flowing Willamette River.
Abiqua Creek also empties into the Pudding River; it flows athwart the easterly valley north of Silverton, further draining the territory around the city.
Silverton's altitude is between 200 and 250 feet (61 and 76 m) above mean sea level with the steep-sided, heavily-wooded Waldo Hills to the south rising an additional 200 feet (61 m). The agricultural richness of the environs is due to massive and repeated floods from prehistoric Lake Missoula in Montana.
Beginning approximately 13,000 years before the present, repeated flooding from Lake Missoula scoured easterly Washington and Oregon, carved out the Columbia River Gorge, and periodically swept down the Columbia River; when floodwaters met ice jams in southwest Washington, the backed-up water spilled over and filled the entire Willamette Valley to a depth of 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) above current sea level, creating a body of water known as Lake Allison.
A Christmas tree farm near Silverton Until the mid-19th century, the Silverton region was a broad, open grassland with small stands of Oregon white oak, ponderosa pine and Douglas fir.
Large stands of Douglas fir and red cedar, different with Oregon white oak, remain in the Silverton area, especially on easterly ridge tops and on the slopes of the Waldo Hills to the south.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.47 square miles (8.99 km2), of which 3.43 square miles (8.88 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Silverton has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. The climate is mostly mild, considering Silverton's northern latitude, and temperature fluctuations are generally small.
Silverton's climate and its soil have made the region well suited for a range of crops and for livestock grazing. Climate data for Silverton The historic Wolf Building (built 1891), positioned at the corner of Water and Main Streets, lies inside the Silverton Commercial Historic District.
As of the census of 2010, there were 9,222 citizens , 3,452 homeholds, and 2,442 families residing in Silverton.
Of the 3,452 homeholds in Silverton, 34.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them.
The median age in Silverton was 35.8 years.
Silverton's gender makeup was 47.6% male and 52.4% female.
East Main Street, downtown Silverton As of the census of 2000, there were 7,414 citizens , 3,452 homeholds, and 2,442 families residing in Silverton.
Silverton's homeownership rate was 60.7%, while 39.9% of occupied housing units were rented.
The ethnic makeup of Silverton was 89.4% White, 11.6% Hispanic or Latino of any race, 1.09% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.21% African American, and 8.83% other competitions. Fischer's Mill on Silver Creek in Silverton, c.1908 The median age in Silverton was 33 (31 for males and 35 for females).
Major employers in Silverton in 2000 encompassed the Silver Falls School District (400+ employees), Silverton Hospital (402), Champion Homes (200+), Brucepac (100+), and Mallorie's Dairy (90).
11.7% of Silverton homeholds earned less than $10,000 per year, while 2.5% earned $150,000 or more.
Silverton Hospital birthing center in Silverton Silverton is the populace core of the Silver Falls School District, which, in addition to Silverton, serves close-by Scotts Mills in as well as communities in the encircling foothills up to Silver Falls State Park.
Currently there are twelve elementary schools in the district, and the ground of Silverton High School on Pine Street, which was instead of in 2009.
In 2006, Silverton and Silver Falls School District formed a partnership to support, maintain, and operate Silverton's small-town access cable channel, SCAN-TV. In 2014, Silverton High School's enrolled students numbered 1,196.
Compared to other similar high schools, Silverton High School students' scholastic achievements rated above average.
In June 2008, Silverton came to global attention when an unarmed Irish citizen, Andrew James (AJ) Hanlon (20), was killed by a police officer, Tony Gonzalez, in controversial circumstances. Gonzalez, who was responding to a reported disturbance of the peace, shot the unarmed Hanlon five times, although Hanlon's sister recalled seeing seven bullets in her brother's body. The death, the first in Silverton in twenty years, was greeted with shock there as well as in Ireland, especially when it emerged that Hanlon had been experiencing psychological issues and had most probably gotten lost on his way home to his sister's home in Silverton. Complaints were made by Hanlon's family that it took six hours for the police to inform his sister of her brother's death, despite her living only a mile away, and questions were asked why the police had not used a tazer, which was available to them. Requests for transparency were greeted by obfuscation and secrecy and claims that, in Andrew Hanlon's mother's words, the city's establishment "had closed rates on" the Hanlon family to protect Gonzalez. while the Consulate in San Francisco of the Government of Ireland registered concern over the killing. Protests outside Silverton City Hall were also ignored. On 24 July 2008, a Silverton grand jury found that because Gonzalez had testified that he believed that Andrew James Hanlon was armed, his killing was justified. Eight days later, on August 1, 2008, and just over a month after Andrew was killed on the 30th of June, Gonzalez resigned from Silverton's police department.
Silverton is the gateway to Silver Falls State Park, Oregon's biggest state park.
The Oregon Garden, an 80-acre (32 ha) botanical park, is in Silverton.
Gordon House, positioned on the grounds of Silverton's Oregon Garden, is the only home in the Pacific Northwest designed by Frank Lloyd Wright which is open to the public.
Silverton has a number of outsized murals, including Norman Rockwell's The Four Freedoms painted on the side of a building positioned at 402 Main Street in Silverton, and visible from Second Street Every August, the Homer Davenport Community Festival jubilates Silverton's most famous citizen writer, political cartoonist, and Arabian horse breeder Homer Davenport (1867 1912) with exhibits, entertainment, an arts and crafts fair, rides, competitions, contests, a cartooning competition, a party, and a parade.
The Palace Theater in Silverton's Commercial Historic District is a movie theater constructed in the early 1900s.
Bobbie the Wonder Dog (1921 1927), traveled on his own from Indiana to his home in Silverton "Silverton's Start (Adapted from the Silverton Centennial Program Guide)".
"2010 Enumeration profiles: Oregon metros/cities alphabetically R-S" (PDF).
Climate Summary for Silverton, Oregon "SILVERTON, OR (357823)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Silver Falls School District SCAN-TV, Silverton, OR Silverton High School 2014 Performance Ratings 'Andrew Hanlon: gunned down by an American cop' 'Andrew Hanlon shot seven times by US police' 'Andrew Hanlon: gunned down by an American cop (Bock the Robber, 3 July 2008) a b 'Cops kill Irishman in Oregon' (Irish - Abroad, 10 July 2008) 'Grand jury: Silverton police officer justified in shooting death' (The Oregonian, 24 July 2008) 'Former Silverton cop pleads guilty to sex abuse' (Katu.com, 9 December 2008) Silverton's Mural Society "Will the show go on after Silverton theater fire?".
Silverton, Oregon Historic Context Statement (PDF).
Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Preservation Office.
"Historic Architecture in Silverton, Oregon, and Its Environs" (PDF).
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Entry for Silverton in the Oregon Blue Book Silverton Chamber of Commerce
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