Wilkes is the northeasternmost neighborhood in
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the list of cities in Oregon, largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, Columbia rivers, Portland is ...
, bordered on the north by the
Columbia River and on the east by the city of
Gresham. It adjoins the neighborhoods of
Argay,
Russell, and
Hazelwood on the west, and
Glenfair on the south.
Interstate 84 runs through the middle of the neighborhood.
History
The Wilkes School property was donated by the Wilkes family. The Wilkes also settled
Banks
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Becaus ...
and
Wilkesboro in the
Dairy Creek area.
The Wilkes were the family that Dr.
John McLoughlin sent Noble Ellis up to
Mt. Hood to rescue in the winter of 1847. The Wilkes Family Book "By an Oregon Pioneer Fireside" written by L. E. Wilkes is located in the Oregon State Legislative Library.
The first park established in the neighborhood was Wilkes Park. The land for the park was acquired in 1998 and the park was dedicated August 3, 2004. Since then, the city's
parks department and its Bureau of Environmental Services partnered to acquire of land at the headwaters of Wilkes Creek in March 2011 to create a second park and natural preservation area.
[Larry Bingham, "Area short on parks will get one", ''The Oregonian'', 5 March 2011, p. E-1]
References
External links
Fairview-Rockwood-Wilkes Historical SocietyWilkes Community and Rockwood Corridor Plan
(Portland Bureau of Planning, 1987)
Wilkes Street Tree Inventory Report
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon
Oregon populated places on the Columbia River
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