Powellhurst-Gilbert is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of
Portland, Oregon
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. It borders the neighborhoods of
Montavilla,
Hazelwood, and
Mill Park
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on the north,
Centennial
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on the east,
Pleasant Valley on the east and south, and
Lents
The Lents neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon is bordered by SE Powell Blvd. on the north, the Clackamas County line or City of Portland line on the south (whichever is farther south), SE 82nd Ave. to the west, and roughly S ...
and
South Tabor on the west.
According to the Neighborhood Plan, the neighborhood is named after two of its schools: Powellhurst (named in the 1920s after 1850s settler Jackson Powell) and Gilbert (named after William M. Gilbert, an Indiana emigrant who settled in the area c. 1890).
Settlement of the community by farmers via the
Donation Land Claim Act
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began in the middle of the 19th century. Rail service to Portland began in 1892, spurring residential development. The resulting suburb was gradually annexed by Portland beginning in the 1960s and completing in 1994.
The neighborhood includes the
Jade District
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commercial and cultural center.
Powellhurst-Gilbert contains Portland's largest Asian population, making up 17.89% of the city's population.
See also
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Heart Beacon'' (2013)
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Kelly Butte Natural Area
Kelly Butte Natural Area is a city park of about in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, just east of Interstate 205. The park is named after pioneer Clinton Kelly, who settled the area east of the Willamette River in 1848. It is part ...
References
External links
Outer Southeast Community Plan: Adopted Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Plan(Portland Bureau of Planning, March, 1996)
(PortlandNeighborhood.com)
Powellhurst-Gilbert Street Tree Inventory Report
Former census-designated places in Oregon
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon
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