Facts About Lake Oswego
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The town was founded in 1847 and incorporated as Oswego in 1910.
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The city has a total area of 11.35 square miles, of which 10.68 square miles are land and 0.67 square miles are covered by water.
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Oswego and Lake Grove merged in 1959 to form Lake Oswego.
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Lake Oswego has two sister cities Pucón, Araucanía Region, Chile & Yoshikawa, Saitama, Japan.
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Albert Alonzo Durham founded the town of Oswego in 1847, naming it after Oswego, New York.
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In 1960, Oswego was renamed Lake Oswego when it annexed part of neighbouring Lake Grove.
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Lake Oswego is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County, with small portions extending into neighbouring Multnomah and Washington counties.
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Oswego Lake was formed 15,000 years ago by the Missoula Floods, originally named Waluga, wild swan, by Clackamas Indians.
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Oswego was the hub of Oregon’s brief iron industry in the late 19th century and is today a suburb of Portland.
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The estimated population of Lake Oswego is 39,127, as of 2019.
