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Population:
13,962
Land area:
2.9 square miles
Median resident age:
42.4 years
Median household income:
50,592
Median home value:
243,700
Mean travel time to work:
27 min-
utes
Educational attainment:
90% High school or higher
30% Bachelor’s degree or higher
Note: Demographic information
drawn from the U.S. Census
Bureau.
For the inside word on the histo-
ry of Oak Grove, talk to longtime
resident Dick Jones.
Jones described the boundaries
of Oak Grove this way: “To the
west, is the Willamette River, north
is the city of Milwaukie, south is the
Oregon City School District bound-
ary and east is Kellogg Creek.”
To distinguish between Oak
Grove and Oak Lodge, Jones noted
that to him, Oak Grove is where the
old town of Oak Grove is situated.
“It’s a little sliver along Oak Grove
Boulevard; from Oatfield Road to
the river,” he added.
Oak Lodge, Jones said, is a big-
ger area, a “more all-encompassing
area.”
His parents moved to Oak Grove
when he was only 4 years old,
because they wanted to “get out of
the big city,” he said.
His parents could “move around
via the railroad” that ran through
downtown Oak Grove.
“It’s quite different now,” Jones
noted, in that people use the rail
system to get to populated areas.
“In those days people used the
railroad to get out to less dense
areas — it’s an interesting twist,”
he said.
Jones noted that he “rode the
streetcar until its last day,” in 1958,
and said he remembers when the
only grocery store was the Piggly-
Wiggly, on Courtney and
McLoughlin.
Jones left Oak Grove for a period
of time after college, but in 1994,
he moved back into the same
house where he grew up.
Oak Grove is special to him,
because it is “one of those low-
density areas where people know
people. You can still walk on the
streets safely,” he noted.
Jones is particularly fond of the
Trolley Trail, which passes by right
outside his house. Clackamas
County completed an extension of
the trail last year.
Oak Grove
Over a century of history.
Population:
684
Elevation:
110 feet above sea level
Land area:
0.1 square miles
Median resident age:
38.5
Median household income:
$23,438
Median home value:
$21,300
Mean travel time to work:
25.3 min-
utes
Educational attainment:
75% High school or higher
4% Bachelor’s degree or higher
One of the smallest cities in the
metropolitan area with just over
630 people — though not the
smallest in the state — Johnson
City may be easy for Clackamas
residents to overlook, but it’s
beloved by the people who live
there.
Johnson City, near Gladstone,
was incorporated by a 49-to-10
vote on June 16, 1970. At the time
of the election, it had the distinc-
tion of being owned entirely by
one man, Delbert Johnson.
Johnson started the development
as a trailer court in 1959 and tried
without success to have the
45-acre area annexed to
Gladstone in 1968. The 1969
Oregon legislature established a
boundary review board to prevent
a proliferation of small in incorpo-
rated cities, but the proponents
had filed for an election before the
effective date of the law.
In May, residents of Johnson
City will vote on whether to also
become part of the Clackamas
River Water District, where the citi-
zens currently get water. City
councilors would like voters to
approve the measure to ensure
continued water supply from CRW,
and to allow citizens to vote in
CRW elections.
City Hall
16121 S.E. 81st Ave., Johnson Cit
y 97267
Call: 503-655-9710
Mayor:
Kay Mordock
Council President Kimberly Glover
Connie Abell
Elizabeth Collins
B.J. DiCario
Johnson City
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