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We would like to provide the residents of  Keizer  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Keizer Home page. The Keizer Home page provides as much information as possible on Keizer. Knowing Keizer’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Keizer’s Home page, you will also find Keizer’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Keizer has a population of 39408. 47.1% of Keizer’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.9 are female. 46.5% of Keizer is married and 59.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $280,898, and the average rent is $1,096. Household median income in Keizer is $64,671, and the individual median income is $31,466. Keizer’s Ethnic is the following: White(81.8%), Hispanic(23%), Multiple(9.8%), Other(5.9%), Asian(1.1%), Native(0.7%), Pacific(0.4%), Black(0.3%).


The original settlement was at Keizer Bottom, near the banks of the Willamette River. The community was named after Thomas Dove Keizur, one of its first settlers. Somewhere in the translation of donation land claim records, his name was misspelled. The settlement suffered in the flood of 1861, and the inhabitants rebuilt their homes on higher ground.


Further floods in 1943, 1945, 1946 and 1948 hampered the growth of the community, and it was not until dams were built in the 1950s to regulate the flow of the Willamette that Keizer began to flourish. The City of Salem tried to annex the growing community adjacent to its city limits many times. Beginning in 1964, a number of Keizer residents, powered by Janet and Richard Bauer and family, tried to convince the people of Keizer that it would be cheaper and better to form their own city.


It was not until November 2, 1982, that, with the support of the nearby unincorporated community of Clear Lake, residents voted to make Keizer a city.Keizer Bottom is now the site of Keizer Rapids Park, a public park whose attractions include a dog park, playground, boat-in camping, nature trails, a disc golf course, and sport courts.


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