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Welcome to Garden Home ...

Garden Home is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Garden Home, you might get a feel for it by knowing that the earliest mention that we've found (so far) was in a book dated 1895.

Garden Home is 300 feet [91 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Garden Home lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Garden Home: 503 & 971<3>

Communities near Garden Home ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Garden Home.

  • Portland
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Vancouver
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Hillsboro
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Gresham
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Gresham is located in Multnomah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gresham
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 110,031 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gresham <4>
  • Beaverton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Tigard
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Tigard is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tigard
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 56,049 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tigard <4>
  • Lake Oswego
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Oregon City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Tualatin
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • West Linn
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Garden Home. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Garden Home.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Garden Home. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Garden Home.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Garden Home. See our Newspapers Page for Garden Home.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Garden Home ...

Looking for more information about Garden Home? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Garden Home, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Garden Home.

Adding Garden Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Garden Home in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Garden Home was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Garden Home.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Oregon's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Garden Home - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 503 code has been Overlayed with the 971 area code. New phone numbers in the Garden Home area will be assigned with one of these codes: 503 or 971. As a result, placing a call in the Garden Home area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.