Tigard, Oregon Tigard, Oregon Website City of Tigard Tigard / ta rd/ is a town/city in Washington County, Oregon, United States.
The populace was 48,035 at the 2010 census. As of 2007, Tigard was the state's 12th biggest city. Incorporated in 1961, the town/city is positioned south of Beaverton and north of Tualatin, and is part of the Portland urbane area.
Interstate 5 and Oregon Route 217 are the chief freeways in the city, with Oregon Route 99 - W and Oregon Route 210 serving as other primary highways.
Like many suburbs in the Willamette Valley, Tigard was originally settled by a several families.
The most noteworthy was the Tigard family, headed by Wilson M.
Arriving in the region known as "East Butte" in 1852, the family settled and became involved in organizing and building the East Butte School, a general store (which, starting in 1886, homed the area's postal service) and a meeting hall, and retitled East Butte to "Tigardville" in 1886. The Evangelical organization assembled the Emanuel Evangelical Church at the foot of Bull Mountain, south of the Tigard store in 1886.
In 1910, the arrival of the Oregon Electric Railway triggered the evolution of Main Street and pushed Tigardville from being merely a small farming improve into a reconstructionof expansion which would lead to its incorporation as a town/city in 1961.
1911 marked the introduction of electricity, as the Tualatin Valley Electric business joined Tigard to a service grid with Sherwood and Tualatin.
City of Tigard, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1994.
In the 2004 general elections, the town/city of Tigard won approval from its voters to annex the unincorporated suburbs on Bull Mountain, a hill to the west of Tigard.
Tigard Transit Center station in downtown on the Westside Express Service (WES) Bull Mountain Road in Tigard According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.81 square miles (30.59 km2), all land. North of Mc - Donald Street, Tigard, along with Metzger and some of the unincorporated Bull Mountain area, uses the 97223 ZIP code for incoming mail, while the southern half of the town/city uses 97224, as do the close-by city of King City and the improve of Durham.
The Tigard Post Office on Main Street has a ZIP code of 97281, which is used only for postal service boxes.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 79.6% White, 1.8% African American, 0.7% Native American, 7.2% Asian, 0.9% Pacific Islander, 5.9% from other competitions, and 4.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 19,157 homeholds of which 33.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 50.4% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 34.9% were non-families.
As of the census of 2000, there were 41,223 citizens , 16,507 homeholds, and 10,746 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 85.38% White, 5.57% Asian, 1.14% African American, 0.61% Native American, 0.53% Pacific Islander, 3.76% from other competitions, and 3.00% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace dispersal was 25.5% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 34.1% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $51,581, and the median income for a family was $61,656.
Main Street in Tigard Tigard is officially divided into 13 geographic areas around elementary schools and primary transportation routes.
Each neighborhood has been assigned an region number, 1-13, however some of the neighborhoods carry unofficial names long associated with them before to their current numeric designations. For instance: Area 1 does not have a particular name associated with it.
Area 4 is called either North Tigard or, more commonly, Metzger (though much of Metzger lies in unincorporated Washington County).
Area 5 is generally referred to as the "Tigard Triangle," with Oregon Highways 99 - W and 217 forming two sides of the triangle and Interstate 5 forming the other side.
Area 6 contains Downtown Tigard and City Hall.
Area 8 is called Southview and rests upon a broad hill titled Little Bull Mountain athwart Oregon Highway 99 - W from the taller Bull Mountain.
Area 9 is the Cook Park Neighborhood, titled after the city's biggest park.
It also contains Tigard High School.
Area 10 is Central Tigard.
Area 13 lies on the northwest slope of Bull Mountain and is called West Tigard.
Tigard in 1880 at the corner of SW Pacific Hwy and SW Gaarde St, remains, having been saved from demolition in the 1970s by the Tigard Area Historical and Preservation Association.
During the Portland Rose Festival every summer, the Tigard Festival of Balloons is held at Cook Park near Tigard High School. The tallest building in both the town/city and county is a 12-story building at Lincoln Center. The town/city of Tigard falls mostly under the jurisdiction of the Tigard-Tualatin School District; however, some of the northwesternmost part of the town/city falls under the jurisdiction of the Beaverton School District.
The Tigard-Tualatin School District contains ten elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools.
Tigard is home to Tigard High School, Fowler Middle School, Twality Middle School, Alberta Rider Elementary, CF Tigard Elementary, Durham Elementary, Mary Woodward Elementary, Deer Creek Elementary and Templeton Elementary.
Private schools include Gaarde Christian School, Oregon Islamic Academy and Westside Christian High School.
The town/city operates the Tigard Public Library, which started in 1963. City of Tigard 257 The town/city is also home to the Washington Square mall, one of the biggest in Oregon, and the northern part of Bridgeport Village.
Washington Square mall is positioned in Tigard.
Interstate 5 passes along the easterly edge of the city, with Oregon Route 217's southern end at I-5 at Tigard.
Other primary roads are Oregon Route 99 - W, Boones Ferry Road, and Hall Boulevard (Boones Ferry and Hall, along with a small portion of Durham Road, are the components of Oregon Route 141).
Oregon Route 210 is positioned along the northern boundary, separating Tigard from Beaverton.
WES has a stop at Tigard Transit Center, with Washington Square Transit Center as the only other Tri - Met transit center in the city.
"2010 Enumeration profiles: Oregon metros/cities alphabetically T-Y" (PDF).
"Tigard Community Profile: 2006 Edition" (PDF).
City of Tigard.
Downtown Tigard - The Heart of Our Community Tigard Festival of Balloons Tigard jubilates year of great growth, development.
"Home values, average income, top employers and more: Tigard by the numbers".
Media related to Tigard, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons Entry for Tigard in the Oregon Blue Book Municipalities and communities of Washington County, Oregon, United States
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Tigard, Oregon - Cities in Oregon - Cities in Washington County, Oregon - Portland urbane region - Populated places established in 1852 - 1852 establishments in Oregon Territory - 1961 establishments in Oregon
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