Helvetia
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- Type: Village
- Description: unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon
- Also known as: “Helvetia, OR” and “Helvetia, Oregon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Helvetia Cemetery and West Union Baptist Church.
West Union Baptist Church
Church
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West Union Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation and historic church structure in West Union, Oregon, United States. West Union Baptist Church is situated 1½ miles south of Helvetia.
Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
Museum
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The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is a non-profit museum in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Located just north of the Sunset Highway on the northern edge of Hillsboro, the earth science museum is in the Portland metropolitan area. Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is situated 2 miles southwest of Helvetia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Union and Rockcreek.
West Union
Quarter
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West Union is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1851, the community had the first school district in the county; it also contains the oldest cemetery in the state and the oldest Baptist church west of the Rocky Mountains. West Union is situated 2½ miles southeast of Helvetia.
Rockcreek
Suburb
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Rockcreek is a census-designated place in Washington County, Oregon, United States, north of U.S. Route 26. It is named for the Rock Creek neighborhood in the area. Rockcreek is situated 3½ miles southeast of Helvetia.
North Plains
Village
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North Plains is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States, off U.S. 26 on the northwest outskirts of the Portland metropolitan area. The population was 3,441 at the 2020 census. North Plains is situated 3½ miles west of Helvetia.
Helvetia
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States, hamlet, and locality
- Location: Washington, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.59567° or 45° 35′ 44″ northLongitude
-122.91733° or 122° 55′ 2″ westElevation
276 feet (84 metres)Named after
HelvetiaOpen location code
84QVH3WM+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 150944246OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5730924Wikidata ID
Q2234621
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Volapük—“Helvetia” goes by many names.
- French: “Helvetia”
- Haitian: “Helvetia, Oregon”
- Haitian: “Helvetia”
- Hungarian: “Helvetia”
- Irish: “Helvetia”
- Japanese: “ヘルベティア”
- Persian: “هلوتیکا، اورگن”
- Persian: “هلوتیکا”
- Romanian: “Helvetia, Oregon”
- Romanian: “Helvetia”
- South Azerbaijani: “هلوتیکا، اورقن”
- Vietnamese: “Helvetia, Oregon”
- Vietnamese: “Helvetia”
- Volapük: “Helvetia”
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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 “Helvetia”. Photo: Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0.