Boring is an
unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Clackamas County, Oregon
Clackamas County ( ) is one of the List of counties in Oregon, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county sea ...
, United States. It is located along
Oregon Route 212 in the foothills of the
Cascade mountain range, approximately southeast of
downtown
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Portland,
and northeast of
Oregon City. A
bedroom community
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, Boring is named after
William Harrison Boring, a
Union soldier and
pioneer whose family built a farm in the area in 1856, before Oregon had
received statehood.
The community was officially
plat
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ted in 1903 after the
Portland Railway, Light and Power Company constructed an electric rail line, which operated from Portland to
Cazadero. The former railway is now part of the
Springwater Corridor
The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It follows a former railway line from Boring, Oregon, Boring through Gresham, Oregon, Gresham to Portland, Oregon, P ...
, a
rail trail
A rail trail or railway walk is a shared-use path on a Right of way#Rail right of way, railway right of way. Rail trails are typically constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track has been removed but may also share the rail corr ...
which begins in Boring and ends at the
Eastbank Esplanade along the
Willamette River
The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward ...
in southeast Portland. The
Boring Lava Field, an extinct
volcanic field
A volcanic field is an area of Earth's Earth's crust, crust that is prone to localized volcano, volcanic activity. The type and number of volcanoes required to be called a "field" is not well-defined. Volcanic fields usually consist of clusters ...
zone that comprises terrain extending from Boring to downtown Portland, took its name from the community.
Boring was a hub of the
timber industry
Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, window frames). ...
in the Pacific Northwest prior to and during
World War I
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due to the abundance of surrounding
temperate coniferous and
evergreen forests, as well as its proximity to the
Port of Portland. In addition to logging,
plant nurseries
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry, or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general ...
and agriculture have also historically been major economic forces in Boring.
Boring has often been included in lists of
places with unusual names.
In 2012, Boring was named a
sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
While there are early examples of inte ...
of the village of
Dull, Scotland, and later joined
Bland, Australia, in the "Trinity of Tedium."
History
Timeline
The land on which Boring was built was a former
lava field
A lava field, sometimes called a lava bed, is a large, mostly flat area of lava flows. Such features are generally composed of highly fluid basalt lava, and can extend for tens or hundreds of kilometers across the underlying terrain.
Morp ...
. The
Boring Lava Field, which takes its namesake from the community, is located just north of Boring.
There are approximately 80 lava vents across the area, remnants of the volcanic activity that occurred there roughly 2.6 million years ago.
The lava field extends across surrounding Portland and
Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver ( ) is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington, located in Clark County, Washington, Clark County. Founded in 1825 and incorporated in 1857, Vancouver had a population of 190, ...
, though the volcanic centers are extinct.
The land that would later become Boring had no known inhabitants, though the
Clackamas Tribe had a camp located south of Boring, near present-day
Oregon City, along the
Willamette River
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. By 1855, the remaining members of the tribe had relocated to the
Grand Ronde. Settlers began to arrive in the
Oregon Territory
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the United States, Union as the Oreg ...
in mid-1800s via the
Oregon Trail
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, after the establishment of
Portland.
Boring takes its name after
William Harrison Boring, an
Illinois
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native and early resident who began farming there in 1874, and subsequently donated land for the community's first schoolhouse to be built. He was a
Union veteran who had moved to Oregon after having fought in the
Siege of Vicksburg during the
Civil War
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. William's half-brother, Joseph, had settled in the area in 1856 prior to his arrival.
Boring was
plat
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ted in 1903 as ''Boring Junction'' after the construction of a railway line by the
Portland Railway, Light and Power Company. The post office was established and named Boring the same year, which builders of an interurban railway adopted as the name of the community. An
electric trolley
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operated on the railroad line from
Portland through
Gresham and Boring, ending in
Cazadero, which began transporting passengers in 1905.
The trolley significantly reduced travel time between Portland and the communities to its east: Horse and buggy travel from Boring to Portland took an average of six hours, while a trip to Portland via the trolley system took only one hour.
Though younger students in the area attended a local school built on Richey Road, high school students in Boring commuted via trolley to Gresham and Portland to attend high schools there.
The early residents of the area post-settlement were mainly
German and
Swedish immigrants.
After
World War II
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and the prominence of automobile ownership, the trolley ceased passenger operations to Portland, but continued to travel between Boring and Gresham.
The railway went defunct in the following years, and was incorporated as part of the
Springwater Corridor
The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It follows a former railway line from Boring, Oregon, Boring through Gresham, Oregon, Gresham to Portland, Oregon, P ...
, a
rail trail
A rail trail or railway walk is a shared-use path on a Right of way#Rail right of way, railway right of way. Rail trails are typically constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track has been removed but may also share the rail corr ...
that begins in Boring and ends at the
Eastbank Esplanade in
downtown Portland
Downtown Portland is the central business district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is on the west bank of the Willamette River in the northeastern corner of the southwest section of the city and where most of the city's high-rise buildi ...
.
In 2005, citizens of Boring applied to become one of the first legally recognized
villages
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in Oregon. However, after many months of polarizing debate on the village issue, residents narrowly defeated the village designation in a town hall referendum in August 2006, with 293 votes in favor and 298 against.
Name and municipality pairings

The unusual name of the community often prompts its inclusion on lists of
unusual place names. The name "Boring" is embraced by locals, however, and found in many local businesses, resulting in many road signs that seem humorous to outsiders. Boosters of the village designation use the slogan "The most exciting place to live."
In 2011, Elizabeth Leighton of
Aberfeldy, Scotland, proposed the community's pairing with the village of
Dull, Scotland, after passing through Boring on a cycling holiday. In June 2012, Boring accepted the proposal of Dull to "pair" their municipalities, in an effort to promote tourism in both places as a play on their names.
Dull is a village of only 84 residents, while Boring has about 8,000.
In 2013, the farm community and former gold prospecting site
Bland Shire
Bland Shire is a Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. it covers an area of . As at the the population was 5,995. It is a member of the League of Extraordinary Comm ...
in
West Wyalong,
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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was added to the mix to create not a "twinned town" relationship but a "League of Extraordinary Communities" grouping Dull, Boring, and Bland
as a means of encouraging travel,
promoting all three communities.
The same year, construction of the Boring Station Trailhead Park was completed on the empty lot that once housed the original 1903 train station, and opened to the public. The Boring Community Planning Organization also issued commemorative "Boring & Dull: a pair for the ages" T-shirts and mugs, as well as raffling off a trip to Dull.
Geography
Topography
Located at the northernmost end of the eastern
Willamette Valley
The Willamette Valley ( ) is a valley in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Willamette River flows the entire length of the valley and is surrounded by mountains on three sides: the Cascade Range to the east, the ...
, Boring rests in the
foothills of the
Cascade
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Science and technology Science
* Air shower (physics), a cascade (particle shower) of subatomic particles and ionized nuclei
** Particle shower, a cascade of secondary particles produced as the result of a high ...
mountain range, at the base of
Mount Hood
Mount Hood, also known as Wy'east, is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range and is a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It was formed by a subduction zone on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast and rests in the Pacific N ...
. The community is approximately from
Government Camp, a major resort and skiing community on Mount Hood. The community comprises approximately of Clackamas County.
[ Boring is considered part of the ]Portland metropolitan area
The Portland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area, metro area with its urban area, core in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington (state), Washington. It has 5 principal cities, the largest being Portland, Oregon. The U.S. Office of Man ...
, located approximately southeast of the Portland city limits, and from downtown Portland
Downtown Portland is the central business district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is on the west bank of the Willamette River in the northeastern corner of the southwest section of the city and where most of the city's high-rise buildi ...
.
Boring's landscape is hilly, with its elevation
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ranging between and .[ Several creeks run west through the community limits into the Clackamas River, including Doane Creek, North Fork Deep Creek, and Tickle Creek.
]
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification
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, Boring has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate
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, characterized by warm, dry summers and cool, rainy winters.[ The community receives an annual average of of rain—significantly more than neighboring Portland, which averages , or Gresham, which averages . Boring's high volume of rainfall can be attributed to its location in the ]Cascade
Cascade, or Cascading may refer to:
Science and technology Science
* Air shower (physics), a cascade (particle shower) of subatomic particles and ionized nuclei
** Particle shower, a cascade of secondary particles produced as the result of a high ...
foothills, which situates it at a considerably higher elevation than other towns and cities in the Portland metropolitan area. The first frost in Boring typically occurs within the first week of November, while the last is typically in the first week of April.[
]
Annual data
Economy
After its inception as a railroad community, Boring evolved into a hub for the timber industry
Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, window frames). ...
in the Northwest, beginning in the pre-World War I
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era and continuing throughout much of the 20th century. One of the first mills established in Boring was the Hillyard Sawmill, which began operations in the 1890s; the mill produced over of lumber per day, mostly consisting of railroad ties. Bert Jonsrud, an early resident of the area, would later establish the Jonsrud Bros. Lumber Company, which would become Boring's main lumber mill. In a 1915 survey of timber and logging camps in the Pacific Northwest
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, it was reported that Jonsrud mill was producing of lumber per day. Today, Vanport International is the main lumber company operating out of Boring. Although their main business is lumber export, they are co-located with a lumber mill actively processing timber products.
The Portland Traction Company
The Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P) was a railway company and electric power utility in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, United States, from 1906 until 1924.Thompson, Richard M. (2006). ''Portland's Streetcars'', pp. 57 and 9 ...
, a now-defunct railroad, operated a rail line from Portland (near the current location of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI, ) is a science and technology museum in Portland, Oregon, United States. It contains three auditoriums, including a large-screen theatre, planetarium, and exhibition halls with a variety of hands- ...
(OMSI) on the Willamette River
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) to Boring via Gresham. In the 1950s, the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF, ...
railroads jointly took over operation of the remaining portion of the line for freight operations. Much of the line has since been purchased by local governments for the creation of a long-distance rail trail
A rail trail or railway walk is a shared-use path on a Right of way#Rail right of way, railway right of way. Rail trails are typically constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track has been removed but may also share the rail corr ...
named the Springwater Corridor
The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It follows a former railway line from Boring, Oregon, Boring through Gresham, Oregon, Gresham to Portland, Oregon, P ...
.
The community is also home to a large number of dairy farms, plant nurseries
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry, or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general ...
and berry
A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit. Typically, berries are juicy, rounded, brightly colored, sweet, sour or tart, and do not have a stone or pit although many pips or seeds may be present. Common examples of berries in the cul ...
farms, including Iseli Nursery and Liepold Farms, who supplies produce to the local restaurant chain Burgerville. There are over thirty active plant and tree nurseries that operate within the community. Another Boring community staple
Mt. Hood Center
was built in Boring in 1974 and the facility is still functioning today as an equestrian center, event venue, and an equine-based schooling alternative, Mt. Hood Center Academy. Boring is also home of a campus of Guide Dogs For The Blind, Inc., the oldest guide dog training program on the US West Coast. The largest employer in Boring as of 2018 is Good Shepherd Community Church, an independent Evangelical church.
Demographics
According to the 2010 U.S. census, the ZCTA for Boring's ZIP code had a population of 7,726 in 2,875 households. This was a significant drop from the 2000 census, which had reported a population of 12,851. Males made up 50.50% of the population, while females made up 49.50%.[ According to this data, the population's ethnic profile was 77.3% ]white
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, 13.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.6% Asian, .3% African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
, and 4% two or more races.[
32.20% of households in the ZCTA earned under $50,000 annually, while 39.80% earned between $50,000–$100,000, and 28% had reported earnings exceeding $100,000.][ As of 2018, the unemployment rate was 3.98%.][ 86.8% of residents were property owners, while 13.2% were renters. In 2015, Boring was ranked among the wealthiest ZIP codes in the ]Portland metropolitan area
The Portland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area, metro area with its urban area, core in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington (state), Washington. It has 5 principal cities, the largest being Portland, Oregon. The U.S. Office of Man ...
.
Law and government
Along with other unincorporated communities in Clackamas County, Boring is served by Metro, a regional government of the Portland metropolitan area, and the only metropolitan planning organization in the United States. The community is located within Oregon's 3rd congressional district, represented by Earl Blumenauer
Earl Francis Blumenauer ( ; born August 16, 1948) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for from 1996 to 2025. The district includes most of Portland, Oregon, ...
.[
In 2015, Steve Bates, the former chair of the Boring planning council received over 700 signatures in favor of having the community removed from the Metro ]jurisdiction
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, due to the fact that Metro's regional boundary only includes the western half of the community, where Boring's downtown area lies. Metro responded by noting that Boring lies outside of their urban growth boundary, and that the jurisdictional boundary had no bearing on any foreseeable incorporation of Boring.[
According to the Clackamas County voting data from the 2012 U.S. general election, Boring somewhat favored the Republican party, which accounted for 59% of votes, while 37% favored the Democratic party.] Other parties accounted for 4% of votes.[ In the 2008 U.S. general election, the Republican party was only slightly favored at 51%, with the Democratic party at 47%, and 2% accounting for other parties.
]
Education
The first schoolhouse in Boring was the Fern Hill School, built in 1883. The Kelso Schoolhouse opened two years later, in 1885. Another four-room school house called Oregonia was built in 1904. A play shed was added to the school in 1918.
Contemporarily, the community is served by the Oregon Trail
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and the Gresham-Barlow school districts as the community straddles the boundary between the two. Elementary schools in Boring include Naas Elementary and Kelso Elementary. Secondary schools serving Boring include Boring Middle School, Sandy High School (Oregon Trail), and Sam Barlow High School (Gresham-Barlow). Private schools in the area include Good Shepherd School and Hoodview Adventist School.
Boring is also home to Oregon Trail Academy, the only public K-12 single campus International Baccalaureate
The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), more commonly known as the International Baccalaureate (IB), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the I ...
school in the Northwest. The school was established as a charter school in 2010 by the Oregon Trail School District and also serves students from Gresham-Barlow. In 2019, the school ranked in the top 15 schools in the Portland metro area and 17th in the state.
Students' test score performance in the public school system in Boring ranks at or above the national average in both elementary and middle school(s).
Infrastructure
Oregon Route 212 begins in Boring, and runs through the center of the downtown area. Its roads are maintained by the Oregon Department of Transportation
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation. It was first established in 1969. It had been preceded by the Oregon State Highway De ...
.
From the 1970s until the end of 2012, Boring was within the TriMet
The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) is a Transit district, transit agency that serves most of the Oregon part of the Portland metropolitan area. Created in 1969 by the Oregon Legislative Assembly, Oregon legi ...
transit district, the Portland metropolitan area's mass transit
Public transport (also known as public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) are forms of transport available to the general public. It typically uses a fixed schedule, route and charges a fixed fare. There is no rigid definition of whi ...
system, and was served by bus line 84, albeit with only a single round trip in each peak period. In 2011, business owners in Boring petitioned the transit district's board to remove Boring from the district, arguing that Boring was receiving too little bus service relative to the amount being paid in employer-payroll taxes. The petition was approved, to take effect at the beginning of 2013, bringing an end to TriMet service in Boring.
The Springwater Corridor
The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It follows a former railway line from Boring, Oregon, Boring through Gresham, Oregon, Gresham to Portland, Oregon, P ...
, a rail trail
A rail trail or railway walk is a shared-use path on a Right of way#Rail right of way, railway right of way. Rail trails are typically constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track has been removed but may also share the rail corr ...
that was originally a railroad running between Boring and Portland, begins in Boring next to Boring Middle School, and is used for running, walking, and cycling. The trail ends at the Eastbank Esplanade in downtown Portland.
In popular culture
The eponymous fictional town of the Disney
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TV series ''Gravity Falls
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'' is inspired by Boring.
In 2017, it was reported that ABC had developed a "serial killer comedy" series titled ''Boring, OR'' about a small town under siege by a serial murderer. The series is being produced by Jack Black
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for roles in family and comedy films, in addition to his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy ...
.[
In 2013, the community was home to an event hosted by Vitaminwater, in a series in which the company gave Boring and the town of ]Normal, Illinois
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the town's population was 52,736. Normal is the smaller of two principal cities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and is I ...
, "makeovers". The event featured musical performances by Santigold
Santi White (born September 25, 1976), known professionally as Santigold (formerly Santogold), is an American singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album, '' Santogold'' (2008), was released by Atlantic Records and met with widespread critica ...
, Matt & Kim
Matt and Kim (sometimes stylized MATT and KIM) are an American Indie rock#Indie electronic, indie electronic duo from Brooklyn, New York City. The group formed in 2004 and consist of Matt Johnson (vocals/keyboards) and Kim Schifino (drums). The ...
, and Yung Skeeter, as well as standup comedy performances which included Amy Schumer. Boring was the subject of a 2016 promotional documentary short by Brooklyn, New York
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-based cinematographer Adam McDaid for Ogilvy & Mather
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.
In 2018, the Netflix
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web television series '' Everything Sucks!'' is set in the town and focuses on students attending the fictional "Boring High School."
Notable people
* Bob Amsberry (1928–1957), original member of ''The Mickey Mouse Club
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''
* William H. Boring (1841–1932), Union soldier; founder of town
* Ryan Crouser (1992–), shot putter, discus thrower, Olympic Gold Medalist
* Alex Hirsch (1985–), storyboard artist, writer and producer at Disney
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* Charis Michelsen (1974–), actress, model, and makeup artist
* Ben Musa (1905–1974), Oregon state legislator
* Maria Thayer
Maria Christina Thayer (born October 30, 1975) is an American actress and comedian. She first earned public recognition for her portrayal of Tammi Littlenut on the cult series '' Strangers with Candy'' in 1999. Thayer has also had supporting rol ...
(1975–), actress and comedian
* Brian Wilbur (1986–), American football quarterback
Sister cities
Though not recognized by Sister Cities International
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, Boring is paired with the following municipalities:[
* Dull, Perth & Kinross, ]Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...
, United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
* Bland, New South Wales
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, Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
See also
* Boring Lava Field
*Plain, Washington
Plain is a small unincorporated community in Chelan County, Washington, United States. It is located east of Coles Corner, Washington, near U.S. Route 2 and SR 207. Plain was serviced by the former SR 209, now called the Chumstick Highway, w ...
* Cazadero, Oregon
* Damascus, Oregon
* List of places with unusual names
** Boring, Maryland
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Boring Community Planning Organization
Boring-Damascus Grange
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1856 in Oregon Territory
1903 establishments in Oregon
Populated places established in 1903
History of rail transportation in the United States
History of transportation in Oregon
Logging communities in the United States
Portland metropolitan area
Railway towns in Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Clackamas County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon