{"id":43,"date":"2015-04-21T02:49:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:39:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About Santa Clara, Oregon<\/h3>\n<p>Santa Clara is a community of 4242 acres on the northern fringe<strong>*<\/strong> of the\u00a0City of Eugene, Oregon. It began its existence as a sleepy outpost farming community and officially became Santa Clara in 1890 when Colonel A.J. Straight bought a large chunk of land here and named it after his home in California.<\/p>\n<p>The area\u2019s identity became attached to Eugene as large suburban development began here between 1960 and 1975. Today there are about 20,231 residents and about 53% of the area is incorporated with the City of Eugene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">The Santa Clara Community Organization meets on the 1st Thursday of 8 months of the year from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Messiah Lutheran Church at 3280 River Road.\u00a0 There are also four quarterly Board Meetings to deal with business matters.\u00a0 Board meetings can be watched via Google Meet.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong>:\u00a0 Jerry Finigan <a href=\"mailto:contact@santaclaracommunity.org\">email<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>Generally, the Santa Clara Community Organization area is encompassed by Beltline on the south, the Southern Pacific Coos Bay Line on the west, on the north: Irvington to Honolulu, Honolulu to Hyacinth, Hyacinth to Carthage, Carthage to River Rd, River Rd to Beacon, Beacon east to the Willamette River; and the Willamette River on the east.<\/p>\n<p>This map is from the June 2012 SCRROL report. \u00a0The boundaries are still the same, however the properties inside city limits has increased dramatically as developments have been created.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/SantaClaraMap.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/SantaClaraMap.png?resize=640%2C828\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/SantaClaraMap.png?w=662&amp;ssl=1 662w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/SantaClaraMap.png?resize=116%2C150&amp;ssl=1 116w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/SantaClaraMap.png?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/SantaClaraMap.png?resize=495%2C640&amp;ssl=1 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Santa Clara, Oregon Santa Clara is a community of 4242 acres on the northern fringe* of the\u00a0City of Eugene, Oregon. It began its existence as a sleepy outpost farming community and officially became Santa Clara in 1890 when Colonel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}