Crawfordsville, Oregon
Census-designated place
The Crawfordsville Bridge
The Crawfordsville Bridge
Crawfordsville is located in Oregon
Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville is located in the United States
Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville
Coordinates: 44°21′25″N 122°52′28″W / 44.35694°N 122.87444°W / 44.35694; -122.87444
CountryUnited States
StateOregon
CountyLinn
Founded1870
Area
[1]
 • Total1.92 sq mi (4.98 km2)
 • Land1.92 sq mi (4.98 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation
[2]
446 ft (136 m)
Population
 (2020)[3]
 • Total315
 • Density163.89/sq mi (63.28/km2)
Time zoneUTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code
97336
FIPS code41-16650
GNIS feature ID2584413[2]

Crawfordsville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Linn County, Oregon, United States.[4] As of the 2010 census it had a population of 332.[5] It is located about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Brownsville and 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Sweet Home on Oregon Route 228, near the Calapooia River.[6] It has a post office with a ZIP code of 97336.[7]

History

Crawfordsville was founded on the land of Philemon Vawter Crawford in 1870 by Crawford and Robert Glass.[8] When the post office was established in 1870, it was named for Crawford.[8] Crawford was born in Madison, Indiana, in 1814 and he arrived in Oregon via the Oregon Trail in 1851.[8][9] His son, Jasper V. Crawford, was the first postmaster.[8] Philemon Crawford had previously helped establish the Boston Flour Mill near Shedd.[10]

In 1915 Crawfordsville had a population of 300, two sawmills, a flouring mill, a high school, an elementary school, and three churches.[11]

In the early 20th century, Crawfordsville had a population of Sikhs from Pakistan and India who worked for the Calapooya Lumber Company.[12]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2020315—
U.S. Decennial Census[13][3]

Education

Crawfordsville Elementary School, part of the Sweet Home School District, closed in 2011, 158 years after its founding in 1853.[14] Area elementary students now attend Holley Elementary School in Holley.[15]

Points of interest

The Crawfordsville Bridge over the Calapooia River is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

References

  1. ↑ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  2. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Crawfordsville, Oregon
  3. 1 2 "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Crawfordsville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Total Population: 2010 Census DEC Summary File 1 (P1), Crawfordsville CDP, Oregon". data.census.gov. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  6. ↑ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
  7. ↑ "USPS ZIP Code Lookup". Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
  8. 1 2 3 4 McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0875952772.
  9. ↑ Flora, Stephenie. "Emigrants to Oregon in 1851". oregonpioneers.com.
  10. ↑ "The Boston/Thompson Mill". Boston Mill Society. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
  11. ↑ Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. pp. 509–510. ISBN 0-87004-332-3.
  12. ↑ Williamson, Stephen. "Sikhs and Hindus from India Working as Loggers & Millworkers for the Calapooya Lumber Company".
  13. ↑ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Celebration to mark school's closure". The Register-Guard. May 30, 2011. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
  15. ↑ Moody, Jennifer (February 15, 2011). "Board to close Crawfordsville school". Albany Democrat-Herald. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
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