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Keizer is a city in Marion County, Oregon, along the 45th parallel in the Willamette Valley, 3 miles north of downtown Salem and 43 miles south of Portland.

The 2020 census counted 39,376 people in Keizer, making it the 14th most populous city in Oregon, and the city had 14,706 households in the 2020 census, with a median age of 38.0 years.

Keizer was named after pioneer Thomas Dove Keizur and his family, who arrived in the Wagon Train of 1843 and filed donation land claims, and the city's name comes from a misspelling of Keizur in the land claim records.

The original settlement was at Keizer Bottom near the banks of the Willamette River, but after the flood of 1861 the inhabitants rebuilt their homes on higher ground.

Keizer was incorporated on November 2, 1982, after residents led by Janet and Richard Bauer campaigned since 1964 to form their own city rather than be annexed by Salem, which had tried to annex the growing community many times.

Keizer is bordered to the south and east by Salem, and its southwestern border is the Willamette River, which also serves as the boundary with Polk County.

Keizer covers about 7.30 square miles, of which about 7.19 square miles is land and 0.12 square miles is water, and its ZIP codes are 97303 and 97307.

The annual KeizerFEST, formally known as the Iris Festival, takes place in May and showcases Keizer's iris-growing industry, founded by Schreiner's Iris Gardens, one of the country's largest retail iris growers.

The Keizer Heritage Museum is inside the Keizer Heritage Community Center, formerly the Keizer School built in 1916, which is the only public historic building in Keizer.

The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes minor league baseball team plays at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer, which has also hosted the OSAA baseball championship and a Civil War baseball game between the University of Oregon and Oregon State University.