Vanport
Vanport, sometimes referred to as Vanport City or Kaiserville, was a city of wartime public housing in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, between the contemporary Portland city boundary and the Columbia River.Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
- Type: Historic site
- Description: former human settlement in Oregon, United States of America
- Also known as: “Kaiserville”, “Vanport City”, and “Vanport, Oregon”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Delta Park and Lotus Isle.
Delta Park
Park
Photo: Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Delta Park is a public municipal park complex in north Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Delta Park is composed of two distinct sections referred to as East and West Delta Park. Delta Park is situated 1 mile east of Vanport.
Lotus Isle
Park
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Lotus Isle Amusement Park was an amusement park that operated from 1930 to 1932 on Tomahawk Island in Portland, Oregon. Known as the "Wonderland of the Pacific Northwest", Lotus Isle was located just east of the more successful Jantzen Beach Amusement Park. Lotus Isle is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Vanport.
McCoy Park
Park
Photo: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
McCoy Park is a park in the Portsmouth neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. Named for the Oregon Senator Bill McCoy and his wife Gladys, the park is located at the center of New Columbia, a large housing development in Portsmouth. McCoy Park is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Vanport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hayden Island and Kenton.
Hayden Island
Suburb
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hayden Island is an island in the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The wide main channel of the Columbia passes north of the island.
Kenton
Suburb
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.
Faloma
Suburb
Bridgeton is a compact neighborhood of detached houses, rowhouses, apartment and condominium complexes, floating homes, and houseboats in the north and northeast sections of Portland, Oregon.
Vanport
- Categories: destroyed settlement, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Multnomah, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.59995° or 45° 35′ 60″ northLongitude
-122.69618° or 122° 41′ 46″ westOpen location code
84QVH8X3+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 11660302396OpenStreetMap feature
historic=siteWikidata ID
Q596232
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“Vanport” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “凡波特”
- Chinese: “梵港市”
- French: “Vanport City”
- Haitian: “Vanport, Oregon”
- Haitian: “Vanport”
- Hebrew: “ואנפורט”
- Japanese: “ヴァンポート”
- Japanese: “バンポート (オレゴン州)”
- South Azerbaijani: “وانپورت، اورقن”
- Urdu: “وین پورٹ، اوریگون”
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Highlights include Motocross and Portland Expo Center.
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