Kelly Butte Natural Area
1954 establishments in OregonCinder cones of the United StatesParks in Portland, OregonPowellhurst-Gilbert, Portland, OregonProtected areas established in 1954 ... and 1 more
Volcanoes of Oregon
Kelly Butte Natural Area is a city park of about 23 acres (9.3 ha) in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, just east of Interstate 205. The park is named after pioneer Clinton Kelly, who settled the area east of the Willamette River in 1848. It is part of the Boring Lava Field, an extinct Plio-Pleistocene volcanic field that contains 32 cinder cones and shield volcanoes in or near Portland.The butte contains a now-sealed concrete bunker built as a civil defense emergency operations center in 1955–56 and later used for emergency dispatching. It appears in the film A Day Called X.
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Southeast Woodward Street, Portland Powellhurst-Gilbert
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Kelly Butte Natural Area
Southeast Woodward Street
97216 Portland, Powellhurst-Gilbert
Oregon, United States
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