by CoastView | Jun 22, 2024 | 2024, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Oregon
Tillamook Rock is the site of a deactivated lighthouse located about 1.3 miles (2km) west of Tillamook Head in the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Astoria and 34 miles (39 km) north-northwest of Tillamook, Oregon. The...
by CoastView | Jun 16, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Oregon, Rivers
Yachats is a small community at the mouth of the Yachats River on the central Oregon coast, about 54 miles (87 km) northwest of Eugene and 22 miles (35 km) south of Newport, Oregon. The Yachats River flows through the Coast Range for about 12 miles ((19 km) and has a...
by CoastView | Jun 10, 2024 | 2024, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Oregon
The Cape Arago Light is the third of a series of light towers built on Gregory Point and Chiefs Island just south of the entrance to Coos Bay, about 8 miles (13 km) west-southwest of Coos Bay and 3 miles (5 km) west of Charleston, Oregon. The headland was originally...
by CoastView | Jun 5, 2024 | 2024, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Oregon, Rivers
North Bend is one of several communities on Coos Bay, an estuary on the southern Oregon coast, about 22 miles (35 km) south of Reedsport and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the city of Coos Bay, Oregon. Coos Bay is the largest estuary that lies entirely within Oregon with...
by CoastView | Jun 1, 2024 | 2024, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Oregon
Newport is a coastal community on Yaquina Bay on the central Oregon coast, about 39 miles (63 km) west of Corvallis and 23 miles (37 km) south of Lincoln City, Oregon. Yaquina Bay is an estuary, approximately 2,048 acres (829 ha) in area, with freshwater input from...
by CoastView | May 28, 2024 | 2024, Communities, Oregon, Rivers
Necanicum River is approximately 21 miles (34 km) long draining a watershed of 84 square miles (21,756 ha), and forms the first estuary south of the Columbia River about 70 miles (113 km) northwest of Portland and 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Astoria at the coastal...
