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Different services, different boundaries

What are we looking at?
Around the neighborhood

Portland, from here.

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City-published boundaries show administrative geography. They do not define every resident’s sense of neighborhood.

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What this can tell you

Reference police districts (6), fire management areas (1), and city boundary from City services; use dashed and solid outlines.

Sources and limits

Creator

Kaitlin Quinn

Provenance

Built by Kaitlin

Data owner

City of Portland

Coverage

Portland, Oregon; source-specific coverage may differ

Data date

Not established; see the source

Last source check

2026-09-14

Updates

Live source query when the safety view opens; publisher refresh cadence not established

Limits

Administrative areas do not establish response times, available units, travel-time areas, or the full BOEC service boundary.

Authority

Independent research using agency-published sources

Reuse

Underlying data retain their source terms; no blanket reuse license is granted here.

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