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Hillsboro
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city and county seat of Washington County, Oregon, United States
Hillsboro is a city in Oregon that serves as the county seat of Washington County, meaning it is the principal city where county government is based. It is located in the Portland metropolitan area and functions as an important administrative and economic center for the region.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Named after
- David Hill
- Official name
- Hillsboro
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Washington County
- Population
- 106447
- Area
- 61.928483
- Elevation
- 194
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00
- Capital of
- Washington County
- Shares border with
- Beaverton
- Official website
- www.hillsboro-oregon.gov
- Image
- Hillsboro Civic Center - City Hall.JPG
- Households
- 38903
- Dialing code
- 971
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- Commons category
- Hillsboro, Oregon
- topic's main category
- Category:Hillsboro, Oregon
- Commons gallery
- Hillsboro, Oregon
- postal code
- 97129
- inception
- 1841-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Hillsboro, Oregon
- water as percent of area
- 0.0504
- different from
- Hillsboro
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Portland metropolitan area
- per capita income
- 38162
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Encyclopedic overview
Hillsboro (/ˈhɪlzbəroʊ/ HILZ-bər-oh) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the county seat of Washington County. Situated in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city hosts many high-technology companies, such as Intel, in an area locally known as the Silicon Forest. The population was 106,447 at the 2020 census, making Hillsboro the fifth-most populous city in Oregon.
Settlers founded a community here in 1842, later named after David Hill, an Oregon politician. Transportation by riverboat on the Tualatin River was part of Hillsboro's settler economy. A railroad reached the area in the early 1870s and an interurban electric railway about four decades later. These railways, as well as highways, aided the slow growth of the city to about 2,000 people by 1910 and about 5,000 by 1950, before the arrival of high-tech companies in the 1980s.
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