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Corvallis is a city located in Oregon that serves as home to Oregon State University, one of the state's major educational institutions. The city is known as a center for research, education, and technology in the Willamette Valley region.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Benton
- Founded incorporated
- 1845 / 1857
- Mayor
- Charles Maughan
- City
- 14.59 sq mi (37.79 km )
- Land
- 14.46 sq mi (37.46 km )
- Water
- 0.13 sq mi (0.33 km )
- Elevation
- 256 ft (78 m)
- Density
- 4,143.0/sq mi (1,599.64/km )
- Urban
- 69,583 (US: 436th )
- Metro
- 97,713 (US: 365th )
- Demonym
- Corvallisian
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( PST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Zip codes
- 97330-97331, 97333, 97339
- Area codes
- 541, 458
- Fips code
- 41-15800
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Corvallis
- Population
- 59922
- Area
- 37.03886
- Elevation
- 72
- Official website
- www.corvallisoregon.gov
- Image
- Benton County Courthouse Greg Keene.jpg
- Households
- 23243
- Dialing code
- 541
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- inception
- 1845-00-00
- Commons category
- Corvallis, Oregon
- Commons gallery
- Corvallis, Oregon
- IPA transcription
- kɔːrˈvælɪs
- water as percent of area
- 1.1947
- P8168
- Sörth
- per capita income
- 32226
- P12749
- Cottbus District
- postal code
- 97339
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Corvallis (/kɔːrˈvælɪs/ kor-VAL-iss) is a city in and the county seat of Benton County in central western Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2023 Census Population Estimates, the population was 61,087, making it the 9th most populous city in Oregon. This includes the 38,000 Oregon State University students attending classes in Corvallis, over 5,250 of whom live in one of 16 residence halls on the main campus. Corvallis is the location of Oregon State University's 420-acre (170 ha) main campus, Samaritan Health Services, a top 10 largest non-profit employer in the state, an 84-acre (34 ha) Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center campus, and a 2,200,000-square-foot (200,000 m), 197-acre (80 ha) Hewlett Packard research and development campus. Corvallis is a part of the Silicon Forest. Corvallis is the westernmost city in the contiguous 48 states with a population larger than 50,000.
Corvallis is the largest principal city of the Albany–Corvallis–Lebanon CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Corvallis metropolitan area (Benton County) and the Albany–Lebanon micropolitan area (Linn County), which had a combined population of 229,209 at the 2023 U.S. Census Estimates.