Linn County
Sign in to saveAlso known as Linn County, Oregon, Linn County, OR
county in Oregon, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oregon
- Founded
- December 28, 1847
- Named after
- Lewis F. Linn
- Seat
- Albany
- Largest city
- Albany
- Total
- 2,309 sq mi (5,980 km )
- Land
- 2,290 sq mi (5,900 km )
- Water
- 19 sq mi (49 km ) 0.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 132,843
- Density
- 56.2/sq mi (21.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Congressional districts
- 4th , 5th
- Website
- www .co .linn .or .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of Linn County Sign welcoming visitors to the county
Linn County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2023 census population estimates, the population was 131,496. The county seat is Albany. The county is named in the honor of Lewis F. Linn, a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American settlement of the Oregon Country. Linn County comprises the Albany, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the Willamette Valley. In 2010, the center of population of Oregon was located in Linn County, near the city of Lyons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Linn County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.