Category: Portland Metro Neighborhoods

Forest Grove Forest Grove is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States, 25 miles (40 km) west of Portland. Originally a small farm town, it is now primarily a commuter town in the Portland metro area. Settled in the 1840s, the town was platted in 1850, then incorporated in 1872, making it the first city in Washington County. The population…
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Portland Oregon Rent Portland Homes Professionals manages hundreds of rental homes across the Portland Metro Area. We have put this video together to give you a brief look at some of Portland’s great neighborhoods to help you decide on your next home! Call us for more information – 503-443-9331. Portland, Oregon’s largest city, sits on…
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OREGON CITY Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan area. 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. As of the…
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  WILSONVILLE Wilsonville is a city primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A portion of the northern section of the city is in Washington County. It was founded as Boones Landing because of the Boones Ferry which crossed the Willamette River at the location; the community became Wilsonville in 1880. The city was incorporated…
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SW WATERFRONT The redeveloped South Waterfront is home to high-rises, Oregon Health & Sciences University buildings and Tilikum Crossing, a car-free bridge that lights up at night. The Portland Aerial Tram, which connects the waterfront with the OHSU campus, offers panoramic views. Dining options in the area include modern global eateries and local fast-food chains.…
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LAKE OSWEGO Lake Oswego a city in the State of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah and Washington Counties.Located about 8 miles south of Portland and surrounding the 405-acre Oswego Lake, the town was founded in 1847 and incorporated as Oswego in 1910. The city was the hub of…
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HILLSBORO OREGON Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. Lying in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city hosts many high-technology companies, such as Intel, that comprise what has become known as the Silicon Forest. At the 2010 Census, the city’s population was 91,611.…
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GRESHAM OREGON Gresham is a city located in Multnomah County, Oregon, in the United States of America, immediately east of Portland, Oregon. It is considered a suburb within the Greater Portland Metropolitan area. Though it began as a settlement in the mid-1800s, it was not officially incorporated as a city until 1905; it was named after Walter Quintin…
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TUALATIN OREGON Tualatin is a city located primarily in Washington County in the U.S. state of Oregon. A small portion of the city is also located in neighboring Clackamas County. It is a southwestern suburb in the Portland Metropolitan Area that is located south of Tigard. The name of the city is taken from the Tualatin River, which flows along most of the city’s northern boundary. It…
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St Johns Neighborhood St. Johns is a neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States, located in North Portland on the tip of the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Willamette River and the Columbia River. It was a separate, incorporated city from 1902 until 1915, when citizens of both St. Johns and Portland voted to approve its annexation to Portland, which took…
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ARBOR LODGE NEIGHBORHOOD Arbor Lodge is a neighborhood in the North section of Portland, Oregon. Interstate 5 forms the eastern boundary of the neighborhood. The south boundary is formed by Ainsworth Street, the west boundary is formed by a combination of Willamette Boulevard and Chataqua Boulevard, and the north boundary is formed by Lombard Street. The bordering neighborhoods are Piedmont to the…
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Sexton Mountain Sexton Mountain is a neighborhood in Beaverton, Oregon with a population of 10,000 +. Sexton Mountain is in Washington County and is a great place to live in Oregon. Most residents in the area own their homes. There is a lot of shopping available including coffee shops, restaurants, grocery/food stores and parks. The…
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Happy Valley Oregon Happy Valley was originally called Christilla Valley, named after the first residents, Christian and Matilda Deardorff. They arrived in 1851 and claimed 640 acres ) on the floor of the valley. The city was officially incorporated in 1965 and remained a small community until the late 1990s, when it was one of…
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Oak Hills – Portland Oregon Oak Hills is a neighborhood in Washington County, Oregon, United States. The population was 9,050 at the 2000 census. It is on unincorporated land north of Beaverton, west of Cedar Mill, and south/southeast of Bethany. It is roughly bounded by the Sunset Highway on the south, West Union Road on the north, Northwest 174th Avenue on the west, and Northwest 143rd…
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Creston-Kenilworth – Portland Oregon Creston-Kenilworth is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon, lying between SE 26th Ave. on the west and SE Foster Rd. (to SE 61st Ave.) on the east, and between SE Powell Blvd. on the north and SE Holgate Blvd. on the south. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods…
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Homestead Neighborhood – Portland Oregon  Homestead is a Southwest Portland, Oregon, United States, neighborhood in the city’s West Hills. The neighborhood is home to Marquam Nature Park (SW Marquam St. & Sam Jackson Park Rd.), which offers urban hiking in the form of the Marquam Trail, which one can follow to Downtown. The neighborhood also…
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