Boardman is a city in Morrow County, Oregon, United States on the Columbia River and Interstate 84.

The community was platted in 1916 at about the same time Samuel Boardman went to work for the Oregon State Highway Department and became involved in the development of roadside parks.

The Air Force transferred ownership of the range in 1960 to the U.S. Navy and it is now known as the Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility Boardman.

[8] During construction of the John Day Dam on the Columbia River in the 1960s, the city had to be moved south, further from the waters of the planned Lake Umatilla.

[6] Boardman's tourist-oriented businesses were relocated first to serve Interstate 80N (now I-84), which had recently opened, on land that was released by the federal government.

[22] The plant had produced power at a rate of 550 megawatts and was the largest single point of emission of greenhouse gases in Oregon.

The Oregonian reported in November 2008 that Amazon was building a large data center at the 9,000-acre (36 km2) Port of Morrow.

[28] The three data centers in Boardman and Umatilla correspond to the three availability zones in AWS US-West-2 (Oregon) region.

[30][31] ZeaChem has built a demonstration biorefinery at the Port of Morrow with a capacity of up to 250,000 US gallons (950,000 L) of ethanol a year from wood waste.

[32] The company hopes to build a much larger commercial refinery with a capacity of 25 million US gallons (95,000,000 L) annually.

[32][33] However, in April 2013, less than a month after start-up at the demonstration plant, ZeaChem halted production, citing funding problems.

[34] Ambre Energy, a company based in Australia, proposed in 2011 to use the Port of Morrow as a transfer point for shipping U.S. coal to Asia.

Ambre wants to export up to 8.8 million short tons (8,000,000 t) of coal per year from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana.

It would ship the coal by train to Boardman, where it would be loaded on barges and hauled down the Columbia River to the Port of St. Helens.

There it would be transferred to ocean-going ships headed for China, South Korea, Japan, and other Asian countries.

[35] The Ambre plan generated controversy among proponents touting economic benefits and opponents fearing environmental damage.