Wilsonville, Oregon
Wilsonville, Oregon | |
|---|---|
 City Hall | |
| Motto: Serving The Community With Pride | |
 Location in Oregon | |
| County | Clackamas County |
| Incorporated | 1969 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Charlotte Lehan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17.9 km2 (6.9 sq mi) |
| • Land | 17.4 km2 (6.7 sq mi) |
| • Water | 0.5 km2 (0.2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 53.3 m (175 ft) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 13,991 |
| • Density | 805.1/km2 (2,085.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (Pacific) |
| Website | http://www.ci.wilsonville.or.us/ |
Wilsonville is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 13,991 at the 2000 census, and as of 2005 was estimated to be 16,510.[1]
Geography
Wilsonville is located at 45°18′24″N 122°45′59″W / 45.30667°N 122.76639°WInvalid arguments have been passed to the {{#coordinates:}} function (45.306805, -122.766420) Template:GR on the southern edge of the Portland metropolitan area. It is located on the north side of the Willamette River around where Alphonse Boone, grandson of Daniel Boone, established the Boones Ferry, which gave rise to the community of Boones Landing.[2]
Today, Interstate 5 runs north-south through the middle of the city and crosses the Willamette on the Boone Bridge. Transit service was formerly provided by TriMet, but the city decided to "opt-out" and now operates South Metro Area Rapid Transit.
According to the 2000 census, the city has a total area of 17.9 km² (6.9 mi²), a figure which the city says has grown to 19.2 km² (7.4 mi²) by July 2005.[1] For the 2000 figure, 17.4 km² (6.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (2.75%) is water.
Demographics
As of the censusTemplate:GR of 2000, there were 13,991 people, 5,937 households, and 3,775 families residing in the city. The population density was 805.1/km² (2,085.3/mi²). There were 6,407 housing units at an average density of 368.7/km² (954.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 90.45% White, 2.22% Asian, 0.66% African American, 0.70% Native American, 0.16% Pacific Islander, 3.15% from other races, and 2.65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.94% of the population.
There were 5,937 households out of which 30.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.5% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families. 28.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.89. Median home cost was $200,972 in 2000 and had grown to $316,400 by 2006.[1]
In the city the population was spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 94.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $52,515, and the median income for a family was $65,172. Males had a median income of $43,480 versus $28,395 for females. The per capita income for the city was $29,786. About 3.0% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.7% of those under age 18 and 8.2% of those age 65 or over.
Business and economy
Wilsonville is headquarters for several major local and national companies:
- Joe's [3] (formerly known as G.I. Joe's), a retailer specializing in sporting goods, outdoor activities and automotive parts and accessories;
- Hollywood Entertainment,[1] parent company of Hollywood Video;
- InFocus,[1] a producer of multimedia projectors;
- Mentor Graphics,[1] a $700 million company that makes software to design integrated circuits.
Xerox has a large facility in Wilsonville;[1] the company acquired the color printing and imaging division of Tektronix corporation in 2000.[4] Xerox and Mentor Graphics are the city's two largest employees as of 2006, the only two to employ more than 1000 people.[1]
Other large employers in the city are Tyco Electronics (Precision Interconnect), SYSCO Food Services, and Fry's Electronics.[1]
Nike has one of its U.S. distribution centers for footwear in Wilsonville,[5] making it one of the city's largest taxpayers.[1]
Education
Wilsonville is in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District and the Clackamas Community College District.
Elementary schools
- Wilsonville Primary School (closed, 2001)
- Boeckman Creek Primary School
- Boones Ferry Primary School
Middle school
- Inza R. Wood Middle School
- Principal: Barbara Soisson
- Students: 615 students in grades 6, 7, and 8[6]
- History and campus: The school opened in 1980, and was recently remodeled with a new front entrance, art room, band room, stage, and four open spaces (referred to as porches) that include class sets of computers. The school is named for long-time Wilsonville teacher and principal Inza R. (Mrs. Aubrey) Wood, born Inza R. Thompson in 1882, died 1957-07-11, buried at Pleasant View Cemetery, Clackamas County. Each year on Memorial Weekend students from the school go to the cemetery to maintain the graves of the Wood Family.[7][8]
- Curriculum: four core classes (math, science, language arts, and social studies) and two electives, one of which must be either Spanish or French, with the other choices being band, drama, choir, art, sculpture, presentations, and computer graphics.
High schools
- Wilsonville High School
- Arts and Technology Charter High School
College
- Clackamas Community College Satellite campus
History/Trivia
 | This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. (July 2007) |
- The grandson of Daniel Boone, Alphonse Boone, settled in what would later become Wilsonville and established Boones Ferry across the Willamette River. The ferry gave rise to the community of Boones Landing which eventually grew into Wilsonville.[9]
- In protest of the construction of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, specifically the effect of the prison on property values, Larry Eaton began erecting school buses on his property. The buses had a worse effect on property values than the prison did.
- The former site of Dammasch State Hospital was proposed as a location for Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, but met with much local controversy. Instead, the former hospital building and grounds are currently being used by Villebois, which is a development project.
- Living Enrichment Center, a New Thought Church with as many as 3,000 members, was headquartered in Wilsonville from 1992 until 2004. This New Thought church attracted many well known speakers, such as Marianne Williamson, Arun Gandhi, and Jean Houston (the woman famous for teaching Hillary Clinton to "talk to" Eleanor Roosevelt). LEC closed amid public scandal in 2004. The head minister was the defendant in many multi-million-dollar lawsuits. The head minister's husband, Edward Morrissey, later pled guilty to money laundering.
- Author Walt Morey owned an estate in Wilsonville. After his death, his widow sold the property to a developer, and the housing development built on that property, Morey's Landing, bears his name. The children's section of the Wilsonville Public Library is dedicated to his memory.
- Gordon House, the only house in Oregon to be designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was located in Wilsonville. After the death of the Gordon family, Gordon House was moved to Oregon Garden. Gordon House is the only Wright house open to the public in the Pacific Northwest.
Sister city
Wilsonville has one sister city:[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Demographic information from Wilsonville's official website
- ^ http://www.oregon.com/history/hm/boones_landing.cfm
- ^ http://www.gijoes.com/corp/index.jsp
- ^ William Fellows, "Xerox Sets New Pace in Color Printing With Tektronix Buy," Computergram International, September 23, 1999 Accessed at findarticles.com 2007-02-06
- ^ http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=3&item=facts
- ^ Oregon Department of Education, 2005-06 Report Card, October 16, 2006 Accessed 2007-01-28
- ^ Wilsonville Mayor Charlotte Lehan, in Sherry Cole, or-roots, "My Trip to Oregon." 17 Nov 2005 Accessed 2007-01-28
- ^ Lucille Geigle,Walking Through The Cemeteries.volume II Winter 1993, at or-roots, Oregon Secretary of State Accessed 2007-01-28
- ^ http://www.oregon.com/history/hm/boones_landing.cfm
- ^ http://www.econ.state.or.us/oregontrade/sistercities.htm