Editing Cedar Mill, Oregon (section)

==Infrastructure and services==
[[File:Columbia Sportswear headquarters - Cedar Mill, Oregon.jpg|thumb|right|The headquarters for [[Columbia Sportswear]] are located in Cedar Mill.]]
[[File:Sunset Swim Center - Beaverton, Oregon (2017).jpg|thumb|right|Sunset Swim Center, located adjacent to [[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]]]]
[[File:Cedar Mill Community Library - Oregon.JPG|thumb|left|Cedar Mill Community Library]]

Fire protection and EMS services are provided through [[Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue]].<ref name="about tvfr">{{cite web|title=About TVF&R|url=http://www.tvfr.com/index.aspx?NID=93|publisher=Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue|access-date=13 March 2014}}</ref>  Cedar Mill is served by the [[Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District]] (THPRD), which maintains several parks and a few nature trails in the area, as well as the Sunset Swim Center (public swimming pool adjacent to and used by [[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]]).<ref name=thprd-swim>{{cite web|title=Sunset Swim Center|url=http://www.thprd.org/aquatics/sunset/home.cfm|publisher=[[Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District]]|access-date=2014-10-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Uno|first1=Wesley|title=Swim center will host reopening festivities|url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty_impact/2009/06/swim_center_will_host_reopenin.html|access-date=2014-10-22|work=[[The Oregonian]]|date=June 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112703/http://blog.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty_impact/2009/06/swim_center_will_host_reopenin.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Among parks is [[Cedar Mill Park]].

Like all areas in the Portland metro area, Cedar Mill residents receive ''[[The Oregonian]]''. Virginia Bruce operates the ''Cedar Mill News'', a monthly newsletter running since January 2003.<ref name=oreg-2011jan>{{cite news|last=Tims|first=Dana|title=Virginia Bruce's bailiwick spans Cedar Mill News, Leedy Grange, community festivals and the business association|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2011/01/virginia_bruces_bailiwick_spans_cedar_mill_news_leedy_grange_community_festivals_and_the_business_as.html|access-date=December 10, 2013|newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]|date=January 14, 2011<!--(print edition of Jan. 15)-->|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214071643/http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2011/01/virginia_bruces_bailiwick_spans_cedar_mill_news_leedy_grange_community_festivals_and_the_business_as.html|archive-date=December 14, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Cedar Mill News'' was known as ''The Milltowner'' in its first edition, but by February 2003 had been changed to its present form, the ''Cedar Mill News''.<ref name=milltowner>{{cite web|url=http://cedarmill.org/news/pdf/1-3.pdf|title=The Milltowner - Volume I, Issue 1|publisher=The Cedar Mill News|author=Bruce, Virginia|date=January 1, 2003|access-date=October 18, 2015}}</ref> A local business association known as the Cedar Mill Business Association is involved in the area.<ref name="milltowner"/>

The so-called "downtown" of the CDP is located along Cornell Road from approximately Sunset High School to just past the intersection with Saltzman Road.

===Library===
A non-profit organization named the Cedar Mill Community Library Association (founded in 1974) opened the area's first public library in 1976, located in a shopping center at the intersection of Cornell Road and Saltzman Road (the Milltowner Shopping Center).<ref name="oreg-1988mar">Ostergren, Jack (March 3, 1988). "Cedar Mill Library to triple its floor space". ''[[The Oregonian]]'', West Zoner section, p. 1.</ref><ref name="association">{{cite web|url=http://library.cedarmill.org/about/library-association/|title=Library Association|publisher=Cedar Mill Library Association|access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref> Following expansions in 1978, 1988 and 2001, the Cedar Mill Community Library now occupies {{convert|24500|sqft|m2}} of space.<ref name="about library">{{cite web| title = About Cedar Mill Community Library| publisher = Washington County Cooperative Library Services| url = http://www.wccls.org/libraries/cedarmill| access-date = May 4, 2013}}</ref>  The current site is in a former [[Rodgers Stores|Rodgers]] store, which closed in 1988 and was remodeled for the library, which previously had been located in much smaller space in another building in the same shopping center.<ref name="oreg-1988mar"/>  The library was expanded in 2000–2001<ref name="about library"/> through construction of a new two-story addition at the west end.<ref name="oreg-2000may">Colby, Richard (May 11, 2000). "Bales enlarges the Cedar Mill Library; the food business will spend $1&nbsp;million on the project". ''The Oregonian'', West Zoner section, p. 1.</ref> The Library Association operates both the Cedar Mill and [[Bethany, Oregon|Bethany]] libraries.<ref name="association"/>

===Schools===
[[File:Sunset High School front - Beaverton, Oregon (2015).jpg|thumb|[[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]] is located within the historic Cedar Mill area, but since 1999 the portion of the Cedar Mill CDP it occupies has been within Beaverton.]]
The school district covering the CDP is [[Beaverton School District|Beaverton School District 48J]]<!--UNI 01920*--><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st41_or/schooldistrict_maps/c41067_washington/DC20SD_C41067.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Washington County, OR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-03-24}}</ref>

Public schools which have attendance boundaries covering the Cedar Mill CDP (as of 2020) include the following schools. Elementary schools include Bonny Slope (in the CDP), Cedar Mill (in the CDP), Findley, and Terra Linda (in the CDP). Middle schools with sections of Cedar Mill in their boundaries include Tumwater and Cedar Park, both in Beaverton. [[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]] is the public high school with Cedar Mill in its attendance boundary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st41_or/place/p4112150_cedar_mill/DC20BLK_P4112150.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Cedar Mill CDP, OR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-03-24}} - Compare to school locations and attendance boundary maps. [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st41_or/place/p4112150_cedar_mill/DC10BLK_P4112150_001.pdf See 2010 map].</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/departments/long-range-planning/boundary-information|title=School Attendance Areas|publisher=[[Beaverton School District|Beaverton School District 48J]]|access-date=2024-03-24}}</ref>

In the [[1990 U.S. Census]], the land containing Sunset HS was in the Cedar Mill CDP.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st41_Oregon/41067_Washington/90B41067_000.pdf|title=1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP (RECREATED): WASHINGTON County|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|page=[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st41_Oregon/41067_Washington/90B41067_039.pdf 39]|access-date=2024-03-31}} - Compare page 39 to the physical location of the school.</ref> In 1999, the area with the school was annexed by the City of Beaverton.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bruce |first=Virginia |title=Beaverton in Cedar Mill |date=January 2007 |work=The Cedar Mill News |url=https://cedarmillnews.com/legacy/archive/107/beavrton_in_cm.html|access-date=2024-03-31}} - Compare the map to the physical location of the school.</ref>

Private schools include [[Catlin Gabel School]], Prince of Peace Lutheran School,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.poplconline.org/school-ministries/ |title=Preschool, Pre-K & Kindergarten Lutheran School &#124; Prince of Peace &#124; Portland Lutheran Preschool, Kindergarten & Church |access-date=2015-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424205452/http://www.poplconline.org/school-ministries/ |archive-date=2017-04-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and St. Pius X Catholic School (of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon]]).

===School history===
The first school district serving Cedar Mill, along with nearby [[Bethany, Oregon|Bethany]], the Union School District (District 6), was established in 1856. The first school, serving grades 1 through 8, was built on land donated by pioneer Samuel Walters. The one-room Union School building, built in 1884 and located on what is now N.W. 143rd Avenue adjacent to the Union Cemetery, was replaced by a new two-room building on the same site in 1901, and the school remained in operation until 1948.<ref name="pearsongw"/><ref name=Varner>{{cite book|last1=Varner|first1=Gerald H.|title=School Days: A History of Public Schools In and Around Beaverton, Oregon, 1856–2000|date=2000|publisher=<!--Gerald H. Varner-->|isbn=0-9642353-3-1|pages=21–22, 30–33}}</ref> District 6 was divided twice in the 1880s, with the eastern portion becoming the new Cedar Mill School District in 1883 and the northwestern portion becoming the Bethany School District in 1887 (serving the Bethany and [[Rockcreek, Oregon|Rock Creek]] areas, not Cedar Mill).  The Union and Bethany districts consolidated in 1948, renamed as Sunset Valley School District.  In 1960, the Cedar Mill and Sunset Valley Districts were absorbed by a greatly expanded Beaverton School District (District 48).<ref name=Varner/>

Another former school in the area was Sunset Valley Elementary School, which was built in 1948 to replace Union School and was located on Murray Road immediately north of [[Sunset Highway (Oregon)|Sunset Highway]]. In 1979, shortly before the school's closure in spring 1980, the building was acquired by [[Electro Scientific Industries]]<ref name=oreg-1980apr8>{{cite news|last=Leeson|first=Jeanne|title=Worthwhile experience: Children, industry share school rooms|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=April 8, 1980|edition=Washington County|page=W1}}</ref> (whose main campus was located nearby) and used as ESI's administrative headquarters until the mid-1990s, when it was razed and replaced by a [[The Home Depot|Home Depot]] store.<ref name=Varner/>