Cedar Mill, Oregon
| Cedar Mill, Oregon | |
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| Census-designated place (CDP) | |
Cornell Road & 129th Avenue
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 Location of Cedar Mill, Oregon |
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| Coordinates: 45°31′50″N 122°48′15″W / 45.53056°N 122.80417°WCoordinates: 45°31′50″N 122°48′15″W / 45.53056°N 122.80417°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Washington |
| Place name established (post office opened) | 1874 |
| Named for | sawmill (in operation c. 1855–1891) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3.7 sq mi (9.6 km2) |
| • Land | 3.7 sq mi (9.6 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 256 ft (78 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 14,546 |
| • Density | 3,388.3/sq mi (1,308.2/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP codes | 97229, 97291 |
| Area code(s) | 503 and 971 |
| FIPS code | 41-12150 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1118757 |
| Website | [1] |
Cedar Mill is a suburb of Portland, Oregon, United States; it is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Washington County, north of U.S. Route 26 and west of the Willamette Stone and within the Portland metropolitan area. It received its name from a sawmill on Cedar Mill Creek, which cut Western Redcedars, which were the dominant tree in the area; the mill's pond was near the intersection of 119th and Cornell Road, which could still be seen into the 1960s. The name was established in 1874 with the opening of a U.S. post office named Cedar Mill. As of the 2010 census, the community population was 14,546.
Before white settlement the land was inhabited by the Atfalati, a subgroup of the Kalapuya, called the "Tualatin" or "Wapato Lake Indians" by settlers. Nearby Beaverton was known by the Natives as "Cha Kepi", meaning "Place of the Beaver". While in 1782 the native population exceeded several thousand, due to diseases brought by the settlers sixty years later, in 1842, the population was merely six hundred. By 1890 the members of the tribe had been reduced to 28 and the last known speaker of the Tualatin language, Louis Kenoyer, died in 1936. Early settlers in the area would recall Native Americans passing through the area, visiting their former lands.
Most of the land in the area, as was typical in the Tualatin Valley, was settled in accord with the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850. Pioneer Samuel Walters was the first white settler to arrive in the area, doing so in 1847. William Cornell, namesake of Cornell Road, settled near what is now the easternmost part of Cedar Mill with his wife Emily in 1852. The area became a school district in 1856.
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