| Stafford, Oregon | |
| Settlement Type: | Hamlet and census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Oregon#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Stafford |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Oregon |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Oregon |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Clackamas |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 16.39 |
| Area Land Km2: | 16.24 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.15 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 1895 |
| Population Density Km2: | 116.66 |
| Timezone: | Pacific (PST) |
| Utc Offset: | -8 |
| Timezone Dst: | PDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -7 |
| Elevation Ft: | 194 |
| Coordinates: | 45.3778°N -122.6819°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 97062, 97068 |
| Area Code: | 503 and 971 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 41-69800 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2584424 |
Stafford is an unincorporated community, classified as a hamlet, in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is a census-designated place (CDP), with a population of 1,577 as of the 2010 census.[2] The community covers approximately 15.7km2 located in a rough triangle south of Lake Oswego, east of Tualatin, and west of West Linn. Students in the area attend the schools of the West Linn-Wilsonville School District.
Stafford was named by George A. Steel, a prominent Portland pioneer, after his hometown of Stafford, Ohio, in the 1860s.[3] The Stafford School opened in the community in 1892, and the following year the Eastside Electric Railway owned by Steel reached the area. In 1895, the Wanker family moved to the area and bought land where they built a store and tavern, an area later to become Wankers Corner at the intersection of Stafford Road and Borland Road. Wanker is a German surname (pronounced Wonker), but because the word 'wanker' is also a slang term for 'masturbator' in British English, Wankers Corner has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.[4] The two buildings currently located at Wanker's Corner are the Wanker's Country Store and the Wanker's Corner Saloon and Cafe. It is not a recognized community; it has never had a post office, nor does it consistently appear on maps of Oregon (although the AAA map of Oregon shows it in an inset). The United States Geological Survey classifies Wankers Corner as a "locale": "a place at which there is or was human activity".[5] [6]
Parts of the Stafford area were proposed to be added to the Portland area's urban growth boundary in 1995. Eventually 830acres were added, but later removed after a court fight that ended in 2001 at the Oregon Court of Appeals. In November 2006, the residents of Stafford voted 344–30 to form a hamlet, the second Oregon community to do so (after Beavercreek).[7]