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Oak Grove is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 17,290 as of the 2020 census . [ 5 ]
English: Locator map showing Clackamas County — in northwestern Oregon. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
Oak Grove Fork Clackamas River is a 21-mile (34 km) tributary of the Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon.From its headwaters in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation near Abbot Pass in the Cascade Range, the river flows generally west through Mount Hood National Forest in Clackamas County to the unincorporated community of Ripplebrook.
The stretch between Canby and Oregon City is notorious for frequent and serious accidents. Starting in Oregon City, and continuing through the suburban communities of Gladstone, Oak Grove and Milwaukie, OR 99E is known as McLoughlin Boulevard (after fur trader John McLoughlin). The road crosses the John McLoughlin Bridge just south of Gladstone.
Cottage Grove post office was established in 1855 east of present-day Creswell. [9] It was named by its first postmaster, G. C. Pearce, whose home was in an oak grove. [9] In 1861, the office was moved to the present site of Saginaw; [9] then in the late 1860s, to the southwesternmost part of present-day Cottage Grove, on the west bank of the Coast Fork Willamette River. [9]
Map of Clackamas County. Clackamas County (/ ˈ k l æ k ə m ə s / CLAK-ə-məss) is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. [1] Its county seat is Oregon City. [2]
The Lake Oswego Railroad Bridge (also known as the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge at Lake Oswego and formerly as the Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge at Lake Oswego) is a truss railroad bridge that spans the Willamette River between Lake Oswego, Oregon and Oak Grove, Oregon.
The Oak Grove Hydroelectric Project is a 44 megawatt hydroelectric plant operated by Portland General Electric (PGE) on the Oak Grove Fork Clackamas River. Water for this project is held by three lakes, built between 1923 and 1956. [1] The dam creates the impoundment Lake Harriet.