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Boring is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clackamas County, Oregon, with a population of 1,931 at the 2020 census.

Boring lies along Oregon Route 212 in the foothills of the Cascade Range, about 12 miles southeast of downtown Portland and 14 miles northeast of Oregon City.

Boring is named for William Harrison Boring, a Union soldier who began farming in the area in 1874 and donated land for the community's first schoolhouse; his half-brother Joseph had settled there in 1856.

The community was platted in 1903 as Boring Junction after the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company built an electric rail line from Portland to Cazadero, and its post office was established the same year.

An electric trolley ran from Portland through Boring beginning in 1905, and the former railway is now part of the Springwater Corridor, a rail trail that begins in Boring and ends at the Eastbank Esplanade in downtown Portland.

Boring was a hub of the Pacific Northwest timber industry before and during World War I, and plant nurseries and agriculture have also long been major economic forces, with more than thirty active nurseries in the community.

In 2005, residents applied to make Boring one of Oregon's first legally recognized villages, but the designation was narrowly defeated in an August 2006 referendum, 293 votes in favor to 298 against.

Boring became a sister city of the village of Dull, Scotland, in 2012, and Bland, Australia, joined in 2013 to form the 'League of Extraordinary Communities,' also called the 'Trinity of Tedium.'

The Boring Lava Field, an extinct volcanic field with about 80 lava vents from activity roughly 2.6 million years ago, took its name from the community.

Boring covers about 30 square miles of Clackamas County at an elevation of 505 feet and uses ZIP code 97009.