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Boring is an
unincorporated community located in Clackamas County, Oregon. It is
located along Oregon Highway 212, approximately eight miles south of
Gresham and about the same distance from Clackamas, both suburbs of
Portland. The town comprises two intersections with traffic signals, an
elementary school and a middle school, a branch of the Clackamas County
Bank, a U.S. Post Office, a fire station (which is the headquarters of the
Boring Rural Fire District), as well as other businesses.
The town was named for W.H. Boring, an early settler in the area. It was
platted in 1903 as "Boring Junction" and was in a timber industry town
throughout much of the 20th century. The Portland Traction Company, a
now-defunct railroad, operated a rail line from Portland (near the current
location of OMSI on the Willamette River) to Boring via Gresham. In the
1950s, the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads jointly took over
operation of the remaining portion of the line for freight operations.
Much of the line has since been purchased by local governments with the
intention of creating a long-distance bike path.
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