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Beaverton is a city in Washington County in the Tualatin Valley, one of the main cities of the Portland metropolitan area, and the second-most populous city in the county and the seventh-most populous city in Oregon.

Beaverton had a population of 97,494 at the 2020 census, up from 89,803 in 2010, and the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 survey period counted 41,156 households in the city.

Beaverton takes its name from the beaver dams that once made the area look like a huge lake, and the local Atfalati village was called Chakeipi, meaning place of the beaver.

Lawrence Hall made the first land claim in the area in 1847 and built a grist mill with his brother near present-day Walker Road, and the community's first post office opened in 1872 in a general store run by its first postmaster, Charles Betts.

Beaverton was officially incorporated in 1893, when it had a population of about 400, and local businessman Alonzo Cady served as its first mayor.

Beaverton is an economic center for Washington County along with neighboring Hillsboro, and Nike's world headquarters campus lies just outside the city limits on unincorporated county land after the Oregon Legislature barred the city from annexing it without the company's consent.

Beaverton was an early home to automobile dealerships, beginning with a Ford Motor Company dealership established in 1915 that Guy Carr bought in 1923 and expanded into several locations around Walker and Canyon Roads.

In the early 1920s Beaverton was home to Premium Picture Productions, a movie studio that produced about fifteen films before its site became Watt's Field and associated aircraft manufacturing facilities.

The town's first library opened in 1925 on the second floor of the Cady building, and it moved to its current location on Hall Boulevard and 5th Street in 2000 as part of the Washington County Cooperative Library Services.

Beaverton has encouraged transit-oriented development around its MAX Light Rail stations, including The Round, a mixed-use development around Beaverton Central MAX Station where city hall moved in 2014.