Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Mill City, OR

Mill City is a city in Linn and Marion counties, Oregon, on Oregon Route 22, and had a population of 1,971 at the 2020 census.

At the 2020 census, Mill City had 701 households.

Straddling the North Santiam River, Mill City is the largest town in the North Santiam Canyon of the western Cascade Mountains.

Mill City took its name from the Santiam Lumbering Company mill, incorporated in 1887 by a group of Stayton businessmen headed by John A. Shaw, who also managed the mill, a store, the post office, and a hotel.

The mill and railroad went bust in 1893 but were acquired by timber baron A. B. Hammond, who expanded the mill, store, and hotel and added a theater called The Opera House.

A new boom arrived in 1948 with construction of Detroit Dam twelve miles upriver, and after the dam's completion in 1953 Mill City shifted back to timber until logging declined in the 1990s.

In September 2020, the Beachie Creek fire swept through and destroyed a large portion of the town as part of the Santiam Fire.

The Linn County portion of Mill City is part of the Albany-Lebanon Micropolitan Statistical Area, while the Marion County portion is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Mill City covers about 0.83 square miles of land and uses ZIP code 97360.

Although the local timber industry remains significant, most Mill City residents now commute to work in the Willamette Valley.