Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in Oregon, and county seat of Multnomah County. It is located within the Pacific Northwest, straddling the Willamette River and just south of its confluence with the Columbia River. According to the U.S. Census Bureau as of July 2003, the city's population was estimated to be 538,544, a growth of 1.7% over the April 2000 census figure of 529,121.

The Portland metropolitan area spans Multnomah and Washington counties and Clackamas, Columbia, and Yamhill counties in Oregon, and Clark County in Washington. The immediate metropolitan area has a population of 2,016,357 as of July 2003, which is 5.2% more than the 2000 census figure for the area. The area includes the neighboring cities of Beaverton, Gresham, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, Fairview, Wood Village, Troutdale and Tigard (all in Oregon), as well as Vancouver (in Washington).

Maps

 * Portland Maps, a geographic information system site by the City of Portland

Official and non-profit websites

 * City of Portland
 * Portland Oregon Visitors Association
 * Oregon Tourism Commission's Portland entry
 * Portland Police Bureau

News coverage

 * OregonLive's website for The Oregonian (run by a private subsidiary of the paper's owner, Advance Publications)
 * Portland Tribune - semi-weekly local newspaper
 * Willamette Week: Willamette Week, a weekly mainstream-alternative newspaper
 * Portland Mercury - another local weekly
 * Portland Indymedia - Portland affiliate of Indymedia
 * News4Neighbors.net - a Portland focused, user submitted, news site with a focus on truly local stories and events.

Portland-related wikis

 * WikiWikiWeb (WardsWiki), the Portland Pattern Repository

Commercial online guides

 * Portland Connected - Community Information Portal
 * Welcome to Portland - Essentix's Guide to Portland
 * Portland Communique, a weblog on local issues

Portland-related personal websites

 * Dirt Cheap Guide to Portland, a website by a Portland State University student
 * Portland Ground - Logging the Photons of Urban Oregon, a photographic guide to its neighborhoods