Willamette Falls

The Willamette Falls is a natural waterfall in the United States, located on the between and .
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Photo: Cacophony, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant and Blue Star Memorial Highway.

Power station
Portland General Electric's 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.

Memorial
Photo: Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blue Star Memorial Highways are highways in the United States that are marked to pay tribute to the U.S. armed forces. The National Council of State Garden Clubs, now known as National Garden Clubs, Inc., started the program in 1945 after World War II.

Park
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in the states of and . The National Historic Site consists of two units, one located on the site of Fort Vancouver in modern-day ; the other being the former residence of John McLoughlin in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oregon City and West Linn.

Photo: Adam Herstein, CC BY 2.0.
is a city of 37,000 people in the . 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.

Town
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is a city in , United States. A southern suburb in the , developed on the site of the former Linn City, which was named after US Senator Lewis F.

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is a town in the 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.

Willamette Falls

Latitude
45.35106° or 45° 21′ 4″ north
Longitude
-122.61955° or 122° 37′ 10″ west
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Height
39 feet (12 metres)
Open location code
84QV992J+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2466953968
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­waterfall
Geo­Names ID
7302695
Wiki­data ID
Q8003290
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Satellite Map

Discover Willamette Falls from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Persian—“Willamette Falls” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Willamette Falls”
  • Chinese: “威拉米特瀑布”
  • Hebrew: “מפלי וילאמט”
  • Japanese: “ウィラミット滝”
  • Japanese: “ウィラメット滝”
  • Persian: “آبشار ویلامت”
  • Persian: “ابشار ویلامت”
  • “Willamette Falls”

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