Molalla is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon. The population was 8,108 at the times of the 2010 census.

Molalla was named after the Molalla River, which in outlook was named for the Molala, a Native American tribe that inhabited the area. William H. Vaughan took up a donation land allegation in the Place in 1844. Molalla declare office was standard in 1850, near the site of Liberal, and was discontinued in 1851. The reveal office was reestablished in 1868 and it ran until 1874, then was reestablished in 1876, which is taking into account it was probably placed at the present location of Molalla.

Since the late 1990s, the city experienced a surge in lump and innovation in the residential sector. In 2000, a number of franchised matter have located in Molalla.^{[citation needed]} In 2002, Molalla installed its first stoplight at the intersection of Oregon Route 211 and Oregon Route 213 because of the traffic brought by the increased thing activity.

Molalla is located in the foothills of the Cascade Range, near the Mount Hood National Forest, 15 miles (24 km) south of Oregon City and 13 miles (21 km) from Interstate 5. Molalla is in the company of farms and rural residential development. There are many rock quarries, and thousands of acres of private timberlands, that feed natural resource materials into the economy. Several of the tree farms are managed for definitely maintained and sustained forest.