Canemah
Canemah was an early settlement in the U.S. state of Oregon located near the Willamette River. Canemah was annexed to Oregon City in 1928.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carleton Watkins, Public domain.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: historic neighborhood in Oregon City, Oregon, USA
- Also known as: “Canemah Historic District” and “Canemah, Oregon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Willamette Falls and T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant.
Willamette Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Cacophony, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Willamette Falls is a natural waterfall in the northwestern United States, located on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn, Oregon.
T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant
Power station
Portland General Electric's T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant is a hydroelectric dam on the Willamette Falls built between 1888 and 1895. It is the source of the nation's first long-distance power transmission.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oregon City and West Linn.
Oregon City
Photo: Adam Herstein, CC BY 2.0.
Oregon City is a city of 37,000 people in the Portland Metropolitan Area. The seat of suburban Clackamas County, it is best known as being the end of the Oregon Trail. Several tourist attractions in the city commemorate this history.
West Linn
Town
Photo: Taromsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.
West Linn is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A southern suburb within the Portland metropolitan area, West Linn developed on the site of the former Linn City, which was named after U.S.
Gladstone
Photo: Aboutmovies, CC BY 3.0.
Gladstone is a town in the Portland Metropolitan Area guarded by the Clackamas and Willamette River, where this is plenty of fishing. It is a wonderful small community that is surrounded by many other cities so you are never far from anything.
Canemah
- Categories: neighborhood, historic district, and locality
- Location: Clackamas, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.34567° or 45° 20′ 44″ northLongitude
-122.62121° or 122° 37′ 16″ westElevation
200 feet (61 metres)Open location code
84QV89WH+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 150971486OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Canemah” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Canemah”
- Japanese: “ケインマー”
- Spanish: “Canemah”
- Spanish: “Distrito Historico de Canemah”
- Spanish: “Distrito Histórico de Canemah”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Coffee Creek Falls and Canemah Children’s Park.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Canemah”. Photo: Carleton Watkins, Public domain.