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Lake Oswego is a city primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties, about 7 miles south of Portland.

The 2020 census counted 40,731 people in Lake Oswego, an 11.2 percent increase since 2010, making it the 11th most populous city in Oregon, and the city had 17,134 households in the 2020 census.

Lake Oswego surrounds the 405-acre Oswego Lake, originally named Waluga, meaning wild swan, by the Clackamas people, and the lake is managed by the Lake Oswego Corporation.

Albert Alonzo Durham founded the town of Oswego in 1847, naming it after Oswego, New York, and built a sawmill on Sucker Creek, now Oswego Creek, as the town's first industry.

Lake Oswego was the hub of Oregon's brief iron industry in the late 19th century, when the Oregon Iron Company built the first blast furnace on the West Coast in 1866 and aimed to make Oswego into the 'Pittsburgh of the West.'

The town was incorporated as Oswego in 1910, and in 1960 it was renamed Lake Oswego when it annexed part of neighboring Lake Grove.

The railroad arrived in Oswego in 1886 via the Portland and Willamette Valley Railway, and from 1914 the electrified Red Electric service ran between Oswego and Portland, peaking in 1920 with 64 trains to and from Portland daily.

The restored remains of the 1866 Oregon Iron Company furnace stand in George Rogers Park, where a river landing developed by Durham around 1850 once served lumber transport.

The Portland Oregon Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is located in Lake Oswego.

Lake Oswego's ZIP codes are 97034 and 97035, and the city covers about 11.49 square miles, of which about 0.66 square miles is water.