Klickitat Street
| Klickitat Street | |
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 The historic mansion of meatpacking magnate Frank Barnes at number 3533.[1] |
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| Maintained by | City of Portland |
| Length | 3.9 mi[2] (6.3 km) |
| Location | Portland, Oregon |
| West end: | Northeast 11th Avenue 45°32′48″N 122°39′18″W / 45.546759°N 122.654874°W |
| East end: | Northeast 84th Avenue 45°32′47″N 122°34′36″W / 45.546323°N 122.576776°W |
Klickitat Street is a city street located in northeast[3] Portland, Oregon, United States. The main stem of the street is 3.75-mile (6.04 km) long, and runs east-west parallel to—and one block south of—northeast Fremont Street, from its westernmost intersections with North Vancouver Avenue and North Williams Avenue to Northeast 67th Avenue.[4] Additional disconnected segments are east of Rocky Butte from 105th to 117th,[5] 148th to 154th,[6] and 163rd to 165th.[7] A segment named Klickitat Court is between 135th and 140th.[8]
The street is one of Portland's most heavily used bicycle throughways and was selected as one of 15 streets slated for improvement as a "next-generation bicycle boulevard" by the city of Portland.[4] Planned improvements included a flashing beacon at the intersection with NE 33rd, which can be enabled by bicyclists and pedestrians to increase safety and maintain low vehicular traffic.[9]
The street is named after a local Native American tribe, the Klickitat, and was made famous because it is the fictional home of the characters Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby and Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby in a series of children's novels by Beverly Cleary.[10] Cleary grew up on nearby 37th Street, and said the name reminded her of "the sound of knitting needles."[11] There are statues of the characters in the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden in nearby Grant Park.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ Kristine White (Sep 10, 2002), "Living large", The Portland Tribune, http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=13150
- ^ The Google Maps walking distance is 3.9 miles (6.3 km) according to Google, Inc. Google Maps – Klickitat Street (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=45.546695,-122.654715&daddr=NE+Klickitat+St&geocode=%3BFVr7tgIdfqCx-A&gl=us&hl=en&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=14&dirflg=w&sll=45.545433,-122.61034&sspn=0.053439,0.132093&ie=UTF8&z=14. Retrieved January 23, 2010., but the actual span is 3.75 miles (6.04 km)} due to an unknown cause compared to Google Maps straight line measurement tool.
- ^ Northeast refers to one of Portland's five quadrants. See Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon for an overview map.
- ^ a b City of Portland Bureau of Transportation. "Bicycle Boulevards / Neighborhood Greenways: Streets with low traffic volume and speed where bicycles, pedestrians and neighbors are given priority". Portland Online. http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=50518. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
- ^ Maps of 105th to 117th: 45°32′48″N 122°32′54″W / 45.54679°N 122.54833°W
- ^ Maps of 148th to 154th: 45°32′50″N 122°30′25″W / 45.54714°N 122.50699°W
- ^ Maps of 163rd to 165th: 45°32′50″N 122°29′37″W / 45.54712°N 122.49354°W
- ^ Maps of 135th to 140th: 45°32′48″N 122°31′17″W / 45.54653°N 122.52130°W
- ^ Anne Laufe (May 28, 2010). "Flashing light to aid Alameda's N.E. 33rd crossing". The Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/05/flashing_light_to_aid_alameda.html. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
- ^ Harriet Baskas (2010), Oregon Curiosities, Globe Pequot, pp. 108–110, ISBN 9780762749713
- ^ "On Klickitat Street With: Beverly Cleary; For 3 Generations, The Child's Choice". The New York Times. October 26, 1995. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/26/garden/on-klickitat-street-with-beverly-cleary-for-3-generations-the-child-s-choice.html. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
- ^ "Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden". Multnomah County Library. http://www.multcolib.org/parents/cleary/. Retrieved June 1, 2010.
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Coordinates: 45°32′49″N 122°36′45″W / 45.546942°N 122.612478°W
