Friday, December 5, 2008

City of the Day - Oakland, OR

Oakland is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States located 2 miles from Interstate 5. The population was 954 at the 2000 census. Oakland was the first city to be placed on the state's historic register, in May 1968. The city's two-block business district consists of the original brick buildings built in the 1880s and 1890s. Sterns Hardware has been in operation since 1887. Over 80 properties in the city were constructed between 1852 and 1890. Oakland was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 1979. Several films have been shot in Oakland, including Fire in the Sky and Grand Tour: Disaster in Time. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.9 km²), of which, 0.7 square miles (1.8 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (2.74%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there are 954 people, 377 households, and 257 families residing in the city.

You can view all water companies for Oakland, OR here.

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Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 2003 through 2003 shows that customers of City of Oakland Water drank water containing up to 1 pollutants. City of Oakland Water is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.

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