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Beavercreek is an unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place in Clackamas County, Oregon, located 6 miles southeast of Oregon City.

The 2020 census counted 4,727 residents in Beavercreek, living in 1,699 households, with a median age of 47.6 years, and 58.3 percent of residents lived in rural areas.

The name Beaver Creek was first used for a school district in the area in the early 1850s, named for the creek that flows through the community and into the Willamette River.

A post office operated under various names in the locality until 1922, when the name was changed to Beavercreek, the form still used today.

In the summer of 2006, the citizens of Beavercreek voted to become Oregon's first hamlet, a system of quasi-government that exists in Clackamas County, and the Hamlet of Beavercreek was officially recognized after a county commissioners hearing in September 2006.

The hamlet holds monthly community meetings at the Beavercreek Grange hall, except for quarterly town hall meetings, which may be held at other locations.

Beavercreek is the birthplace of geocaching, because the first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, a few miles east of the community.

The Miller House in Beavercreek was the childhood home of Ava Helen Miller, who married Linus Pauling, the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes, for chemistry in 1954 and for peace in 1962, and the house was moved to keep it from being destroyed and is being restored by local residents.

Beavercreek covers 20.12 square miles at an elevation of 666 feet, making it far more spread out than most Portland-area communities.

The community is served by the Oregon City, Canby, Colton, and Molalla River school districts, and Beavercreek Elementary School is located in the Hamlet.