Kenton
Kenton is a neighborhood in the north section of Portland, Oregon, United States. The neighborhood was originally a company town founded in 1911 for the Swift Meat Packing Company.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 7,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, United States
- Also known as: “Kenton, Portland, Oregon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kenton Library and Kenton Commercial Historic District.
Kenton Library
Library
Photo: Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kenton Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, in the Kenton neighborhood of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Preceded by reading rooms in North Portland and later by the Lombard Branch Library, the Kenton Library opened in 2010 in a storefront on North Denver Avenue.
Kenton Commercial Historic District
Historic site
Photo: Werewombat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kenton Commercial Historic District is a historic district in north Portland, Oregon's Kenton neighborhood, in the United States. The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Paul Bunyan Statue
Work of art
Photo: Cacophony, Public domain.
Paul Bunyan Statue is a 31-foot-tall concrete and metal sculpture of mythical logger Paul Bunyan in the Kenton neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arbor Lodge and Piedmont.
Arbor Lodge
Suburb
Arbor Lodge is a neighborhood in the North section of Portland, Oregon. Interstate 5 forms the eastern boundary of the neighborhood. The south boundary is formed by Ainsworth Street, the west boundary is formed by a combination of Willamette Boulevard and Chataqua Boulevard, and the north boundary is formed by Lombard Street.
Piedmont
Suburb
Piedmont is a neighborhood in the north and northeast sections of Portland, Oregon, United States. The Piedmont subdivision was platted in 1889 by Edward Quackenbush, and promoted in an early flyer as "The Emerald, Portland's Evergreen Suburb, Devoted…
Portsmouth
Suburb
Portsmouth is a neighborhood in the north section of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is bordered by Columbia Boulevard to the north, Lombard Street to the south, Chautauqua Boulevard to the east, and a BNSF Railway cut to the west.
Kenton
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Multnomah, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.58315° or 45° 34′ 59″ northLongitude
-122.69315° or 122° 41′ 35″ westPopulation
7,000Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)United Nations Location Code
US KYOOpen location code
84QVH8M4+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 150937261OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Kenton” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “肯頓”
- Dutch: “Kenton”
- French: “Kenton”
- Turkish: “Kenton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kenton City Park and Peninsula Open Bible Church.
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