Springfield, Oregon Springfield Springfield, Oregon Springfield as seen from the Mount Pisgah, looking north, with some of Eugene in the west Springfield as seen from the Mount Pisgah, looking north, with some of Eugene in the west Springfield is positioned in the US Springfield - Springfield Website City of Springfield The historic Southern Pacific depot in Springfield Springfield is a town/city in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
Separated from Eugene to the west, mainly by Interstate 5, Springfield is the second-most crowded city in the urbane region after Eugene.
The Briggs family first settled the Springfield area, arriving in 1848.
The town/city was titled after a natural spring positioned in a field or prairie inside the current town/city boundaries. Traditionally the economy of the improve was resource dependent, but since the 1990s the economy has diversified with Peace - Health now the biggest employer in the city.
Public education in the town/city is provided by the Springfield School District.
Springfield was settled when Elias and Mary Briggs and their family appeared in 1848.
In 1854 Springfield School District No.
She had appeared in Springfield via the Lost Wagon Train of 1853.
In 1871 the chief line of the Oregon and California Railroad bypassed Springfield for Eugene.
The story goes that a group of prominent Eugene businessmen paid barns financier, Ben Holladay, $40,000 to bypass Springfield by crossing the Willamette River near Harrisburg freshwater Springfield.
Springfield was incorporated as a town/city in 1885.
Albert Walker, a blacksmith in town, was Springfield's first mayor.
In May 1992 the municipality became the first in the United States to include anti-gay legislation in its town/city charter after a campaign by the Oregon Citizens Alliance. However, the state council later passed a law that inhibited anti-gay ordinances from being enforced. For years, the economy of Springfield hinged on the lumber industry, with the biggest employer being Weyerhaeuser Company.
Weyerhaeuser opened its Springfield complex in 1949, and after years of aggressive logging was forced to downsize as old expansion lumber became less available.
Springfield has now advanced a more diversified economy.
Ken Kesey's brother Chuck, and Chuck's wife Sue, started the Springfield Creamery in 1960.
The town/city of Springfield is surrounded by filbert (hazelnut) orchards.
Springfield is home to two hospitals, Mc - Kenzie-Willamette Medical Center and Peace - Health's Sacred Heart Medical Center at River - Bend.
According to the City's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the biggest employers in the town/city are: 2 Springfield School District 1,291 7 City of Springfield 423 The current mayor of Springfield is Christine Lundberg, and the town/city manager is Gino Grimaldi. The town/city council comprises members from 6 wards. The current council members are: The Springfield Police Department and Eugene Springfield Fire are the city's enhance safety agencies. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 15.75 square miles (40.79 km2), of which, 15.74 square miles (40.77 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Author Ken Kesey moved to Springfield when he was young and graduated from Springfield High School before moving on to the close-by University of Oregon.
The Springfield Public Library is positioned inside town/city hall. Wildish Community Theater on Main Street in downtown Springfield, a complete renovation of the historic Mc - Kenzie Theater, opened in December 2006.
The Springfield Renaissance Development Corporation spearheaded the six-year renovation project, instead of at a cost of $3.1 million. There are 15 elementary, 4 middle, and 4 high schools in the Springfield School District, making it one of the biggest in the state. The biggest enhance high schools, by enrollment, are Thurston High School and Springfield High School.
The town/city took third in the voting to choose one of the sixteen possible Springfields in the U.S.
To host the premiere of The Simpsons Movie. The show's creator, Oregon resident Matt Groening, sent a plaque to the town/city of Springfield that stated, in part "Yo to Springfield, Oregon the real Springfield." In April 2012, Groening confirmed to Smithsonian periodical that he titled the fictional Springfield after Springfield, Oregon.
Diane Downs, child murderer arrested and jailed in Springfield According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Springfield has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. "Lundberg chose Springfield mayor".
"American Fact - Finder: Oregon population".
"Early History of Springfield, Oregon".
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Mabon's group in May, when the Oregon town of Springfield voted, by 55 percent to 45 percent, to turn into the nation's first municipality to include anti-gay language in its town/city charter.
The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a state law Wednesday that bars metros/cities and counties from enforcing anti-gay rights ordinances.
"City of Springfield 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report" (PDF).
"Springfield City Manager's Office".
"City Council and Wards".
City of Springfield, Oregon.
"Eugene Springfield Fire website".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
"SPL Downtown City Hall.".
"Springfields Vie For "Simpsons" Premiere." The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA Climate Summary for Springfield, Oregon Wikimedia Commons has media related to Springfield, Oregon.
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