Vanport
Vanished settlement · United States
- Abandoned
- 1948
- Founded
- 1942
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 45.601, -122.696
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: It was destroyed in the 1948 Columbia River flood and not rebuilt.
History
Vanport, sometimes referred to as Vanport City or Kaiserville, was a city of wartime public housing in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, between the contemporary Portland city boundary and the Columbia River. It was destroyed in the 1948 Columbia River flood and not rebuilt. It sat on what is currently the site of Delta Park and the Portland International Raceway.