Monitor, Oregon
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Monitor, Oregon is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, United States. It is located approximately three miles northeast of the city of Mt. Angel, along the banks of the Pudding River, on the eastern side of the Willamette Valley.
Oregon Geographic Names (OGN) states that a local story about the possible origin of the name "Monitor" is that it is derived from a type of flour mill, the Monitor mill, in use in the early days of the community. In 1990, however, a descendant of one of the owners of the mill told OGN's compiler that the mill was named after the Civil War ironclad warship the USS Monitor. Furthermore, the community of Monitor did not exist until 1869, when the post office was established, and this was apparently the first use of the name. Thus, it is more likely the community was named after the ship.
Monitor is surrounded by farmland. Each spring, the Tulip Fest is held at at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm about three miles north of the town center, across the river in Clackamas County.
The ZIP Code is 97071 and 97362, which Monitor shares with the nearby cities of Woodburn and Mount Angel.
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