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Aumsville Grew From a Farm Into a Fast-Growing Marion County City

Aumsville began as a farm owned by pioneer Henry L. Turner, who built a flour mill on the property in 1863. Turner named the settlement after his son-in-law, Amos "Aumus" Davis, who died that same year. The community was informally known as "Hoggum" in its earliest years, a nod to the pig farms that once dominated the area, before officially incorporating as Aumsville in 1911.

That same Henry Turner later lent his name to the nearby town of Turner, founded in 1871 when the Oregon and California Railroad built a station on his land a few miles northwest. Turner sits along Mill Creek, and the creek's real flood risk isn't hypothetical. A 2012 storm pushed Mill Creek more than two feet above flood stage there, inundating roughly 40 percent of the city. It's a useful reminder for any Highway 22 corridor property, Aumsville included, that sits near a waterway rather than on higher ground.

That agricultural identity still runs through the city's culture today, reflected in its official motto, "Home of the Corn Festival." Practically, Aumsville's location just off Highway 22, about 9 to 12 miles southeast of Salem, has made it one of the faster-growing small cities in the area, with population climbing more than 40 percent since 2000.

That growth means Aumsville now has a genuine mix of housing ages: the original farmhouse-era core near Main Street sits alongside newer subdivisions built over the past two decades, and the right plumbing approach depends on which part of town a property is actually in.

What We Check First in an Aumsville Home

For an older property near Aumsville's original core, we check pipe material and age first, since homes from the city's early 20th century growth may still have original galvanized or clay components reaching the end of their service life.

For a home in one of the newer subdivisions built during Aumsville's recent growth, the diagnostic approach looks more like any other recently built Marion County home, focused on manufacturer defects or installation issues rather than age-related wear.

Aumsville at a Glance

Services Aumsville Homes Call Us For Most

Aumsville's rapid growth over the past two decades means we're just as likely to be quoting a repair on a home built in the 1920s as we are wiring up a brand-new water heater in a subdivision that didn't exist ten years ago. Treating each the way its actual age calls for matters more here than in a more uniformly-aged town.

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