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Oregon City
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city and county seat of Clackamas, Oregon, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Clackamas
- Mayor
- Denyse McGriff
- Total
- 10.29 sq mi (26.64 km )
- Land
- 10.05 sq mi (26.03 km )
- Water
- 0.24 sq mi (0.61 km )
- Elevation
- 466 ft (142 m)
- Density
- 3,738.8/sq mi (1,443.54/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( PST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Area codes
- 503 and 971
- Fips code
- 41-55200
- Website
- www.orcity.org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Oregon City is a city in and the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 37,572. Established in 1829 by the Hudson's Bay Company, in 1844, it became the first U.S. city west of the Rocky Mountains to be incorporated.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oregon City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.