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  Clatsop County, Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The county was named for the Clatsop tribe of Native Americans, who lived along the coast of the Pacific Ocean prior to European settlement.
In the county, the population is spread out with 23.70% under the age of 18, 8.90% from 18 to 24, 25.30% from 25 to 44, 26.60% from 45 to 64, and 15.60% who are 65 years of age or older.
Clatsop County was created from the northern and western portions of the original Twality District on June 22, 1844.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clatsop_County,_Oregon   (601 words)

  
 Clatsop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Clatsop (in the original language, La t cap, meaning "placed of dried salmon) (Lā'k!ēlak, 'dried Salmon', F. Boas) are a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking [[Native Americans in the United States Native Americans]] in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
The Clatsop dialect used by the tribe is a nearly-extinct dialect of the Lower Chinookan language, a language in the Oregon Penutian family.
The tribe was encountered at the mouth of the Columbia in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clatsop   (752 words)

  
 Clatsop County History
The county currently occupies an area of 873 square miles and is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by the Columbia River, on the east by Columbia County, and on the south by Tillamook County.
The first county government was organized in the mid-1840s with the election of justices of the peace, clerk, sheriff, assessor, treasurer, and the formation of district courts and the county board of commissioners.
The voters of Clatsop County approved a home rule charter in 1988, which called for a board of county commissioners as the policy determining body of the county, and a county administrative officer.
arcweb.sos.state.or.us /county/cpclatsophome.html   (528 words)

  
 Vital Statistics of Clatsop County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clatsop County is 804.6 square miles and its human population is approximately 33,000.
The terrain of Clatsop County is predominately mountainous timberland, bounded by the Pacific Ocean and the mouth of the Columbia River.
The silt loam bottomlands of the Columbia and its tributary rivers, the adjoining hilly slopes, and the coastal plain, with its dunes and peat boglands, comprise the main agricultural lands of the county.
www.clatsopwatersheds.org /localinfo.htm   (421 words)

  
 Clatsop County Reference Information - Seaside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clatsop territory encompassed some 1100 square miles; its northern border, the Columbia River, extended upstream to the Tongue Point area, there forming an eastern border through the Coast Range wilderness to a border at the south running west to Tillamook Head; its western border, the Pacific Ocean, reached north to the mouth of the Columbia.
The Necanicum River, draining the south Clatsop region, nurtured groves of fir, spruce and pine, a rich groundcover including salal, kinnikinnik, wapato and camass, interspersed with meadows and berry thickets.
Skulls identify these people as Clatsop Flatheads--so called because of their sloping foreheads, a result of their practice of binding the infant across its brow with a strong piece of bark or wood that was tied firmly at both ends to the cradleboard.
www.clatsop.com /ccri/seaside   (377 words)

  
 CAMPING IN CLATSOP COUNTY OR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Fort Clatsop was Lewis and Clarks winter headquarters, and is now a national memorial located near the mouth of the Columbia River.
Clatsop county is a great place to camp, fish, hunt, explore, relax and to live.
Clatsop county is also well known for other items of interest.
www.cybcity.com /camporegon/clatsop.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Oregon Blue Book Clatsop County
General Information: Clatsop County was created from the original Tuality District in 1844 and named for the Clatsop Indians, one of the many Chinook tribes living in Oregon.
The first county courthouse was completed in 1855; the present courthouse was erected in 1904.
County Officials: Commissioners—Lylla Gaebel (NP) 2006, Richard Lee (NP) 2006, Sam Patrick (NP) 2008, Patricia Roberts (NP) 2008, Helen Westbrook (NP) 2006; Dist. Atty.
bluebook.state.or.us /local/counties/counties04.htm   (227 words)

  
 Clatsop County Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The first grist mill for grinding flour in Clatsop County was built near present-day Seaside in 1845 by Thomas Owens, Elbridge Trask, W.T. Perry and Calvin Tibbets.
In 1870, the population of the county was 1,255 (765 males and 490 females).
The 2nd cannery in Clatsop County was built by the Cook brothers in Clifton.
www.clatsophistoricalsociety.org /Pages/chronology.html   (1566 words)

  
 THE DUNE RIDGES OF CLATSOP COUNTY
The Clatsop Co. dunes occur in an area that is locally referred to as the Clatsop Plains.
Therefore the map legend for the Clatsop Plains reflects the additional la, 1b, and 1c ridge sequence even though the time frame of these small ridges are all included in the ridge labeled 1, in the Clatsop Plains.
The wide 3c and 3d bench dunes occur primarily in the central part of the Clatsop Plains in the Camp Rilea area, and may partially own their origin to modern dune filling as shown in (Figure 4) and human filling in of the area between the dune ridges to create flat ground.
nwdata.geol.pdx.edu /Coastal-studies/Dunes   (1936 words)

  
 Prosecutor Profile - Joshua K. Marquis, DA of Clatsop County, Oregon
Marquis, DA of Clatsop County, Oregon, an NDAA state director and co-founder of the Media Relations Committee, speaks his mind freely, no matter how controversial the issue, particularly when a matter of principle is involved.
It was 1994 and Marquis was chief deputy DA of Deschutes County.
The DA of Clatsop County, Julie Leonhardt, had been removed from office after being indicted on a dozen criminal charges, including framing two police officers on phony drug charges after her lover, a convicted felon, had been ticketed for reckless driving.
www.ndaa-apri.org /ndaa/profile/joshua_marquis_may_june_2002.html   (1934 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop NMem: Administrative History (Chapter 5)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Clatsop County commissioners were at first reluctant to accept this arrangement and did not want to quitclaim the county's right-of-way.
The county commissioners wanted assurances from the Park Service that the reconstructed road would be able to handle the weight of loaded logging trucks and not interfere with their use of the road.
The Clatsop County Commissioners then agreed to the quitclaim arrangement, providing that the agreement contain the statement that the county would not be responsible for the costs of any future construction.
www.nps.gov /focl/adhi/adhi5c.htm   (648 words)

  
 1995 NAC 115 Clatsop County, and AFSCME Courthouse/Roads Local 2746, and AFSCME Sheriff's Local 2746-0
The County and the Union mutually agree to reopen this Agreement on any matter which is a mandatory, noneconomic subject of bargaining which the County finds necessary to include in the personnel manual and which either party determines is incon­sistent with or not covered by this Agreement.
Unless specifically modified by a provision of this Agreement, the County's authority and discretion may be exercised to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Before the Interest Arbitrator, the County quoted the Union's proposed language (in­clud­ing the word "employees") and noted "Second sentence is unacceptable." It argued the proposal was contrary to Oregon law in that Lane did not meet the statutory requirements for such a classification.
www.lawmemo.com /arb/award/1995/115.htm   (5953 words)

  
 Oregon Trail to Clatsop Plains by Roy Kirkham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
On February 25, 1851 the citizens of Clatsop Plains met at the house of Thomas Owens for the purpose of organizing two school districts.
The family had lived in Clatsop County for seven years, then relocated to the Corvallis area.
I lived in Clatsop County seven years and went to Benton County August, 1854, where I stayed until 1880.
www.seasidemuseum.org /clatsop_plains.cfm   (5339 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop NMem: Suggested Historic Area Report (Park Data)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As far as the present writer could determine through local inquiry, no oil or gas is being extracted commercially in Clatsop County at the present time, and it is rumored that certain oil and gas leases in the Fort Clatsop area have not been renewed by their lessees.
By an unrecorded lease, dated February 15, 1955, Clatsop County leased the tract for a period of 10 years to the Clatsop County Historical Society "for historical purposes only." The annual rental is one dollar.
This tract was purchased by the Clatsop County Historical Society for $1 from Archie Riekkola, et ux, by a Bargain and Sale Deed (still unrecorded as of December 11, 1956) dated February 7, 1955.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/focl/hussey2/section4a.htm   (1727 words)

  
 Clatsop County, Oregon OR, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Clatsop County, OR Clatsop County is one of 36 counties in Oregon.
The county is in the Astoria metro area.
This was an increase of 1.99% from the 2000 census.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=15218   (444 words)

  
 Clatsop County Records Inventory
These documents were not required to be filed with the clerk and often included filings such as birth and marriage certificates of individuals who were born or married outside of the county but wanted the document to be filed in their county of residence.
Clatsop County Register of Electors [Norwegian ancestry], 1914 (Genealogical Forum of Oregon).
In 1999 Clatsop County combined the administration of health, mental health, alcohol and drug, developmental disabilities, commission on children and families and other functions and services into the health and human services department.
www.sos.state.or.us /archives/county/cpclatsopdescrip1.html   (11628 words)

  
 Clatsop County Heritage Museum Astoria, Oregon (History Museums)
The Clatsop County Heritage Museum can be found in a beautiful, neo-classical building which was built in 1904 and was formerly the Astoria City Hall.
Displays feature different aspects of Clatsop County's heritage--natural history, Indian artifacts, early immigrants and settlers of the area, important maritime events and art history represent some of the stories the museum has to tell.
After use as City Hall, public library, a USO club for WWII servicemen, and the first home of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, the building was an empty derelict until restored by the Clatsop County Historical Society.
www.ohwy.com /or/h/herimuse.htm   (195 words)

  
 1914 Clatsop County, Oregon, Voters Born in Finland Who Were Naturalized or Declared their Intent In Other Counties
The books list all the eligible voters in the county: those who had declared their intent to become citizens and those who had completed the process.
The reason for abstracting these is to help researchers locate naturalization records for Clatsop County residents that can be found in other counties.
The men or their fathers were probably actually in the county listed across from their names at one time, but some of the women may never have been in the county listed.
www.genealogia.fi /emi/emi3d1e.htm   (630 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop NMem: Lewis and Clark Trail from Fort Clatsop to the Clatsop Plains   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It is reliably reported that Chief Coboway and other Clatsop Indians continued to occupy Fort Clatsop during the hunting season for 10 or 15 years after the expedition's departure.
An American missionary who visited the Fort Clatsop site in that year and who was familiar with the Clatsop Plains vicinity, soon afterwards stated: "The Indians have often pointed out to me the trail by which a gang of their [Lewis and Clark's] men went daily from their hut to the coast." [21]
The County Commissioners ordered the road to be established and named it "the Lewis and Clark Road." [25] As far as is known, the road so established has never been vacated or abandoned by Clatsop County.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/focl/hussey/sectionf.htm   (1294 words)

  
 Clatsop County, Oregon (Counties)
The 873 square mile county was established in June of 1844.
The other major communities of Clatsop County are Seaside, Oregon's oldest ocean resort community, and Cannon Beach.
Highway 101 runs through the county along the coast, while Highway 30 (Columbia River) and Highway 26 (the Sunset Highway) connect Clatsop County with the inland parts of Oregon.
www.ohwy.com /or/y/yclatsop.htm   (99 words)

  
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Clatsop Animal Assistance, Inc. was started by a small group of people who wanted to make a difference for the animals in Clatsop County and benefit the Clatsop County Animal Shelter in particular.
Advertising and posters promoting the homeless pets are paid for by CAA funds.  Assistance is also made possible in the community to low-income pet owners.  In addition to helping with emergency medical attention for their pets, we make spay and neuter certificates available.
Clatsop Animal Assistance, Inc. is supported by tax-deductible donations and the money generated during our fundraisers.  All members are volunteers.
www.dogsncats.org   (132 words)

  
 Fort Stevens Cemetery Index
On 22 June 1866 the Acting Assistant Quartermaster for Fort Stevens recommended to the Quartermaster General that a cemetery be prepared in case someone should die.
The nearest burying grounds, he said, were at Astoria, eight miles from the post and at Clatsop Plains, a distance of seven miles.
For those of you doing genealogy research in this area, the site is in Clatsop County and you can access the Clatsop County US Genweb page here.
www.geocities.com /Eureka/4458/ftsteve.html   (755 words)

  
 portland imc - 2003.09.06 - Child Welfare Fraud and Abuse in Clatsop County
The Clatsop County District Attorney(Joshua Marquis) says he knows very little about Rieman and Boggess or their background however his office is prosecuting this case as recently as a March 8, 2004 proceeding.
At the court hearing on March 8th evidence is to be presented regarding the allegations that SE is a delinquent (as alleged by her mother) and that her mother is mentally and emotionally ill as well as verbally and physically abusive (as alleged by SE and her sister).
For Clatsop County, you have to call Lee Coleman in St. Helens, because she is head of Tillamook, Clatsop and Columbia Counties.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/09/271347.shtml   (4350 words)

  
 Digital Clatsop County Map, Maps of Clatsop County County, Oregon.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clatsop County Map, Maps of Clatsop County and all Oregon County Maps.
Every county map is available, but we may not yet have your county of interest completed.
Individual County Overview™ vector graphics are priced by population, with prices ranging from $275 to $425 per county.
www.creativeforceinc.com /county_maps/county_maps.asp?ID=3245   (229 words)

  
 Clatsop County Reference Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
If you are planning on moving your family or business to Clatsop County, or are just interested in the area we hope this information helps.
Each section contains information on population, county or city offices, phone numbers, elevation, and copies of the United States Bureau of the Census reports from 1990.
Clatsop County is located in the north western tip of
www.clatsop.com /ccri   (143 words)

  
 Clatsop County Historical Society Astoria, Oregon (History Museums)
1618 Exchange ST Built as Astoria's City Hall in 1904 is now the Clatsop County Historical Society's regional museum, administrative offices.
The Clatsop County Historical Society is an educational organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of Clatsop County and the surrounding areas.
A team of researchers is developing a site that will present U.S. history in the context of present day travel.
www.ohwy.com /or/c/clatcohs.htm   (219 words)

  
 Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in Oregon (LCBO) Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clatsop County Oregon and the National Park Service announced today that the first part of the rebuilding of Fort Clatsop will occur at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.
The logs were then disassembled and sent to a plant to be treated with a wood preservative.
The NPS plan will follow this model, this time the initial construction occurring in the main arena at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.
www.lcbo.net /projects/or_proj_014.html   (464 words)

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