About Our Community

The Neighborhood Watch is affiliated with Marion County Sheriff's Office and Silverton Volunteer Fire Department/Scotts Mills Volunteer Firefighters Association, Inc.  

For communicating needs and issues regarding Scotts Mills Neighborhood Watch, please use the Directory.  

We do not have specific "Office Space;" primary communications are handled thru the Coordinator. 

• When held, Meetings are held in donated space at the Scotts Mills Community Center on the corner of 4th and Grandview, across from the Grange Building. 

• The community served is about 8 Miles Northeast of Silverton; approximately 6 Miles East of Mt. Angel and has a general in-town population of about 420 (2022 records) people (approximately 100 homes).   SMNWCP is NOT limited to the city limits of Scotts Mills but includes an extended area within the Marion County and the immediate neighboring area of Clackamas County.

• We are served by the Marion County Sheriff's Office on the Marion County side of Butte Creek, by Clackamas County Sheriff's Office on the Clackamas County side of Butte Creek, and by the Oregon State Police.

• We have "partners" in the upper Crooked Finger Road and in the Briar Knob Loop area. We don't consider our watch a "neighborhood" watch as much as a community or "Neighbor Watch" which extends for several miles outside of the city limits. 

More "Pages" on this site provide specific information that will help you learn more about our community.

Additionally, our community has a:

• 1. Post Office (Zip 97375) -  503-873-3415. Hours: Mon-Fri: 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM 01:00 PM - 04:30 PM 

  2. City Hall (on 4th Street) and a City Council   -  scottsmills.org  - 503-873-5435.  For hours, visit the website  

  3. Community Center (Corner of 4th and Grandview)

  4. Grange Hall  (across from the Community Center, corner of 4th and Grandview)

  5. Award-winning Volunteer Fire Department and EMT group

  6. K-8th Grade School (Scotts Mills School)

  7. Cub Scout Troop

  8. Brownie/Girl Scout Troop

  9. Churches

  10. Two parks - (1) the County Park on Crooked Finger Road which includes Scotts Mills Falls and swimming holes, and (2) the City Park on 1st Street - available to rent for weddings and other venues through City Hall.

  11. Historical Society Building (open the 1st Sunday afternoon of each month - and by special request)

  12. Scotts Mills Market

  13. T&M Interiors

  14. and assorted antique businesses, as well as several small and some "homegrown" businesses 

The "Local Business Listing" page provides contact information for multiple businesses or services in the area.

During specific times of the year, there are assorted "craft events," and meetings held both at the Community Center and the Grange, including multiple groups who opt to come out to our community for their meetings.

In 2005, Scotts Mills was a primary "filming site" of a Hallmark Movie which was broadcast on a Sunday evening Hallmark Special (CBS) early in 2007.  "The Valley of Light."  Use this link to view it on youtube  

Across Butte Creek, and on the Clackamas County side, Maple Grove Pioneer Cemetery reflects on a lot of local history, and "way up Butte Creek Road ," is a great Boy Scout Camp!"