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Clackamas County (play /ˈklækəmɪs/) is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The county was named after the Native Americans living in the area, the Clackamas Indians, who were part of the Chinookan people. As of 2000, the population was 338,391. Its county seat is Oregon City.
History
Originally named Clackamas District, it was one of the four original Oregon districts created by Oregon's Provisional Legislature on July 5, 1843 along with Twality (later Washington), Champooick (later Marion), and Yamhill. The four districts were redesignated as counties in 1845. At the time of its creation, Clackamas County covered portions of four present-day states and a Canadian province. The Columbia River became the northern boundary of the county in 1844. Soon after John McLoughlin staked a land claim in Oregon City and built a house that in 2003 became a unit of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
Oregon City was also the site of the only federal court west of the Rockies in 1849, when San Francisco, California was platted. The plat was filed in 1850 in the first plat book of the first office of records in the West Coast and is still in Oregon City.
In 1902, the Willamette Meteorite was recovered from a field just outside present-day West Linn.
In contrast with the more liberal and cosmopolitan Multnomah County to the north, and the more corporate Washington County to the west, some citizens of Clackamas county have espoused a blue-collar, yet conservative political outlook of the backcklash mold described by Thomas Frank. It is the headquarters of Lon Mabon, whose Oregon Citizens Alliance has worked to pass a number of anti-homosexual initiatives, and where Bill Sizemore, who has championed various anti-government initiatives for most of the 1990s, had his base before he moved to Klamath Falls. However, it is a very mixed area overall, narrowly voting for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain in 2008.
As of August 2005, Clackamas is the first county in Oregon to have four models of governance for its communities. Like the rest of Oregon, it has cities (which are formally incorporated) and rural communities (some of which for federal purposes are considered census-designated places).
After completion of a process that began late in 1999, the county adopted an ordinance on August 11, 2005 which defined hamlets and villages. As of the November 30, 2005, deadline, three communities have submitted petitions to start the process of becoming a hamlet or a village. Boring petitioned to become a village. The communities along US 26 near Mount Hood from Brightwood to Rhododendron have petitioned to become "The Villages at Mount Hood". Beavercreek has become a hamlet.
Cities and communities
Several of the county's communities extend into other counties. Lake Oswego and Milwaukie include areas in Multnomah County. Lake Oswego, Tualatin, Rivergrove and Wilsonville include areas in Washington County.
Cities and CDPs in the Portland metropolitan area
Portland (a small portion in the city's southeast quadrant)
Clackamas (a census-designated place)
Damascus/Carver
Gladstone
Happy Valley
Jennings Lodge (a CDP)
Johnson City
Lake Oswego
Milwaukie
Oak Grove (a CDP)
Oatfield (a CDP)
Oregon City
Rivergrove
Sunnyside (a CDP)
Tualatin (a small portion)
West Linn
Wilsonville
Other incorporated cities and CDPs
Barlow
Canby
Estacada
Molalla
Mount Hood Village (a CDP)
Sandy
Other unincorporated communities
Aims
Alder Creek
Barton
Boring
Bull Run
Canemah
Carus
Charbonneau (private community within
the city limits of Wilsonville)
Cherryville
Clarkes
Colton
Cottrell
Currinsville
Dodge
Eagle Creek
Faubion
Firwood
Government Camp
Highland
Hillsview
Kelso
Macksburg
Marquam
Marylhurst
Mountain Air Park
Needy
New Era
Redland
Ripplebrook
Salmon
Shadowood
Springwater
Three Lynx
Union Mills
Viola
Wankers Corner
Wildwood
Yoder
Hamlets
In Clackamas County, a hamlet is a model of local governance for unincorporated areas.
Beavercreek
Molalla Prairie
Mulino
Stafford
Villages
Villages at Mount Hood (consists of Brightwood, Marmot, Rhododendron, Welches, Wemme, and Zigzag)
County/Shire : Latitude: 45.2023855, Longitude: -122.1188945Matches 1 to 1 of 1
Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Death  |
Person ID | Tree | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Hewitt, Alma E. | Thursday 05 April 1973 | Clackamas County, Oregon, USA | I449995 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
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