North Albany is the portion of
Albany,
Oregon
Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...
, United States that lies in
Benton County. As of the
2020 United States census, it was estimated to have 11,273 of Albany's 56,472 people.
As of 2023, North Albany is the second largest city in
Benton County, Oregon
Benton County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 95,184. Its county seat is Corvallis. The county was named after Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. Senator who advocated American cont ...
behind
Corvallis, Oregon
Corvallis ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Benton County, Oregon, Benton County in central western Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton Co ...
(61,087) and ahead of
Philomath, Oregon
Philomath ( ) is a city in Benton County, Oregon, United States. It was named for Philomath (Greek, "love of learning") College. The population was 5,838 as of the 2023 census population estimates. It is part of the Corvallis, Oregon, Metropo ...
(5,838).
History
The first European settlers to come into the area arrived in the 1880s, along with the construction of the Lafayette Street railroad trestle for the
Corvallis and Eastern Railroad Corvallis may refer to: Places
* Corvallis, Montana, USA
* Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Education
* Corvallis High School (California)
* Corvallis High School (Montana)
* Corvallis High School (Oregon)
Others
*Cessna 350 Corvalis light aircraft
* Cessn ...
, which crossed 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 the Albany area. William Peacock was one of North Albany's early settlers, once he purchased a 20-acre farm in 1883. In the 1890s, he built an Italianate Farmhouse-style home on the property that today still stands and is known as the Peacock House. During the same period of time, the steel bridge was built to connect street traffic from Albany to North Albany and later replace with
Ellsworth Street Bridge in 1925.
[Smith, Dwight A., ]James B. Norman
James Burton Norman Jr. (born 1952) is an American photography, photographer, author, and cultural historian.
Career
As an architectural photographer, he has documented more than 200 of Oregon's historic architectural and engineering resources ...
, and Pieter T. Dykman
''Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon''.
Salem, Or: Oregon Dept. of Transportation, Environmental Section, 1985. p. 76.
Not until the 1930s did the area see a major growth, when the construction of the Laurel Heights subdivision commenced in North Albany, along with the Gibson Hill Water Association, to bring the first water district to North Albany.
City of Albany Oregon.
In 1961, North Albany saw its first annexation from the city of Albany, covering most of the land from the river up to Hickory Street. Twenty years later, in 1981, Albany adopted a new
urban growth boundary
An urban growth boundary (UGB) is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by, in its simplest form, mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for urban development and the area outside be preserved in its natural s ...
to contain the rest of North Albany, following along a different water district. Then, in 1991, voters approved annexation for the rest of the land inside the urban growth boundary. It formed what is now the North Albany District of Albany.
References
Unincorporated communities in Benton County, Oregon
Albany, Oregon
Former census-designated places in Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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