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Corvallis ( / kɔːrˈvælɪs / kor-VAL-iss) is a city and the seat of government of Benton County in central western Oregon, United States. [6] It is the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2023 Census Population Estimates, the population was 61,087, making it the 9th most populous city in Oregon. [7 ...
The Avery–Helm Historic District comprises a primarily residential portion of central Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Located on several of Corvallis's earliest plats, the 122 historic houses remaining in the district (as of 1999) present a window into the domestic aspects of the city's development from 1870 to 1949, providing a full industrial, socioeconomic, and architectural profile of ...
The Valley Library is the primary library of Oregon State University and is located at the school's main campus in Corvallis in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1887, the library was placed in its own building for the first time in 1918, what is now Kidder Hall. The current building opened in 1963 as the William Jasper Kerr Library and was expanded and renamed in 1999 as The Valley ...
The College Hill West Historic District boundaries in Corvallis. Location. Corvallis, Oregon, roughly bounded by NW Johnson and Polk avenues, Arnold Way, and 36th Street. Coordinates. 44°34′15″N 123°17′09″W. / 44.570966°N 123.285750°W / 44.570966; -123.285750. Area. Approx. 71 acres (29 ha) [1]
The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 57 of those are found in Benton County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted April 12 ...
Planning for a public library for the town of Corvallis, Oregon began early in the decade of the 1870s. In December 1872, acting response to public interest in the idea of a public library for the city, wealthy railroad investor Dr. J. R. Bayley announced that if a permanent public library association would be formed, that he would provide the group with use of a room inside a new brick ...
Albany ( / ˈælbəni / AL-bə-nee) is the county seat of Linn County, [11] Oregon, and is the 11th most populous city in the state. [12] Albany is located in the Willamette Valley at the confluence of the Calapooia River and the Willamette River in both Linn and Benton counties, just east of Corvallis and south of Salem. It is predominantly a farming and manufacturing city that settlers ...
Western portion of Benton County and Polk County. Named in honor of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth President of the United States. 50,821. 980 sq mi. ( 2,538 km 2) Linn County. 043. Albany.