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Mulino is a hamlet and census-designated place in Clackamas County on Oregon Route 213 between the cities of Oregon City and Molalla, and it is never an incorporated city.

Mulino had a population of 2,250 at the 2020 census, up from 2,103 in 2010, and the 2010 census counted 772 occupied homes in the CDP.

Mulino was named after a flour mill erected there in 1851, when the community was known as Howards Mill, and the name Mulino comes from the Spanish word for mill, molino.

Richard Howard, his wife Cynthia, and their six children settled a 640-acre donation land claim in 1846 that comprised the entire Mulino area, going as far south as the Molalla River, and Howard built a sawmill on Milk Creek in 1848 and put his grist mill into operation in 1851.

Howard's Gristmill, also known as the Mulino Flour Mill, is described on its National Register plaque as the oldest industrial building still standing in Oregon, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

The mill building was later remodeled into a private residence, and it also served for many years as the local post office, with a post office following in the community in the 1880s.

Flour milling at Mulino stopped in 1924 as wheat production and distribution changed, but the Howard family continued milling poultry and dairy feeds there until 1958.

In May 2007, Mulino residents voted to become a hamlet, only the third such designation in Oregon, and Clackamas County granted the community official hamlet status on June 7, 2007.

Mulino is home to the Mulino State Airport, a general aviation facility owned and operated by the Oregon Department of Aviation.

The Oregon Encyclopedia describes Mulino as a hamlet of about two thousand people that began as a family enterprise and grew into a thriving community.