19 Facts About Boring Oregon

The former railway is part of the Springwater Corridor, a rail trail which begins in Boring Oregon and ends at the Eastbank Esplanade along the Willamette River in southeast Portland.

Boring Oregon was a hub of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest prior to and during World War I due to the abundance of surrounding temperate coniferous and evergreen forests, as well as its proximity to the Port of Portland.

Boring Oregon has often been included in lists of places with unusual names.

In 2012, Boring Oregon was named a sister city of the village of Dull, Scotland, and later Bland, Australia.

Land on which Boring Oregon was built was a former lava field.

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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.

Boring Oregon takes its name after William Harrison Boring Oregon, an Illinois native and early resident who began farming there in 1874, and subsequently donated land for the community's first schoolhouse to be built.

Boring Oregon was a Union veteran who had moved to Oregon after having fought in the Siege of Vicksburg during the Civil War.

William Boring Oregon died in 1932 at the age of 91 and was buried beside his wife Sarah in Damascus Pioneer Cemetery.

Boring Oregon was platted in 1903 as Boring Oregon Junction after the construction of a railway line by the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company.

An electric trolley operated on the railroad line from Portland through Gresham and Boring Oregon, ending in Cazadero, which began transporting passengers in 1905.

The railway went defunct in the following years, and was incorporated as part of the Springwater Corridor, a rail trail that begins in Boring Oregon and ends at the Eastbank Esplanade in downtown Portland.

In 2005, citizens of Boring applied to become one of the first legally recognized villages in Oregon.

The name "Boring Oregon" is embraced by locals, however, and found in many local businesses, resulting in many road signs that seem humorous to outsiders.

In June 2012, Boring Oregon accepted the proposal of Dull to "pair" their municipalities, in an effort to promote tourism in both places as a play on their names.

One of the first mills established in Boring Oregon was the Hillyard Sawmill, which began operations in the 1890s; the mill produced over 30, 000 feet of lumber per day, mostly consisting of railroad ties.

Boring Oregon is home of a campus of Guide Dogs For The Blind, Inc, the oldest guide dog training program on the US West Coast.

In 2015, Boring Oregon was ranked among the wealthiest ZIP codes in the Portland metropolitan area.

In 2015, Steve Bates, the former chair of the Boring Oregon planning council received over 700 signatures in favor of having the community removed from the Metro jurisdiction, due to the fact that Metro's regional boundary only includes the western half of the community, where Boring Oregon's downtown area lies.