South Portland, Portland, Oregon

South Portland, Portland, Oregon
Neighborhood representation
Association South Portland Neighborhood Association
Coalition Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.
Neighborhood geography
Area 4.33[1] km² (PDF map)
Location Interactive map
Demographics (2000)
Population 5079 (density 1173/km²)
Households 2904
Owned 1220 (42%)
Rented 1684 (58%)
Data from PortlandOnline.com

South Portland is a long narrow neighborhood just south of Downtown Portland, Oregon, hemmed in between the Willamette River and the West Hills. It stretches from I-405 and the Marquam Bridge on the north, to SW Canby St. and the Sellwood Bridge in the south. The Willamette forms the eastern boundary, and SW Barbur Blvd. most of the western boundary. In addition to Downtown to the north, other bordering neighborhoods are Southwest Hills, Homestead, Hillsdale, and South Burlingame to the west, and Hosford-Abernethy, Brooklyn, and Sellwood-Moreland across the river on the east.

The neighborhood, formerly known as Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill or CTLH, changed its name at a meeting of its neighborhood association on September 6, 2006 to be more concise and inclusive.[2] South Portland was the name of a 19th century community that overlapped the present day neighborhood.

Contents

Areas

The neighborhood is a collection of very different areas.[3]

Parks

  • Butterfly Park - 7720 SW Macadam Ave.
  • Cottonwood Bay - SW Hamilton Ct. (off Landing Dr.)
  • Duniway Park - SW 6th Ave & Sheridan St. Formerly a garbage dump, then landfilled and used for track and field by Portland State University and the YMCA in 1979.[5]
  • Front & Curry Community Garden - SW Naito Pkwy & Curry St.
  • Heritage Tree Park - SW Corbett Ave & Lane St.
  • Lair Hill Park - SW 2nd Ave & Woods St.
  • SW Terwilliger Blvd. Parkway - SW 6th Ave - Sheridan St to Slavin St.
  • Water & Gibbs Community Garden - SW Water Ave & Gibbs St.
  • Willamette Park - SW Macadam Ave & Nebraska St.

External links

References

  1. ^ http://gis.co.multnomah.or.us/pmpb/data.cfm?NBHDNUM=83.0 gis.co.multnomah.or.us
  2. ^ http://ctlh.org/index.html#ctlh1 ctlh.org
  3. ^ http://www.movingtoportland.net/living_southwest.htm#Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair_Hill movingtoportland.net
  4. ^ http://home.comcast.net/~Smart_Talk_Publications/ home.comcast.net
  5. ^ MacColl, E. Kimbark (1979-11). The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1915 to 1950. The Georgian Press. pp. 29. ISBN 0960340815.