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unusual facts about Oregon Coast



Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment

The station’s Area of Responsibility reaches from Ocean Park on the Washington Coast south to Tillamook Head on the Oregon Coast.

Dallas, Oregon

Louis Gerlinger, Sr., incorporated the Salem, Falls City and Western Railway Company late in October 1901 and announced plans to build a railroad from the Willamette River at Salem to the mouth of the Siletz River on the Oregon Coast, a distance of 65 miles.

Longview, Portland and Northern Railway

Beginning in 1954, the "LP&N" operated a three-mile-long short-line railroad on the Oregon Coast that connected the International Paper plant to the Southern Pacific interchange just outside of Gardiner, Oregon.

Samuel Thurston

Along with Joseph Lane, he was instrumental in 1851 in blocking ratification of the Taney Point Treaty concerning the lands of the Clatsop and Nehalem tribes along the Oregon Coast.


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1964 Alaska earthquake

Twelve people were killed by the tsunami in or near Crescent City, California, while four children were killed on the Oregon coast at Beverly Beach State Park.

Chetco

Chetco effect - also known as the Brookings effect, a weather pattern off the mouth of the Chetco River at the city of Brookings on the Oregon coast

Edward M. Brownlee

He currently maintains a studio on the Oregon Coast and works in carved stone and cast bronze.

George Lewis Gillespie, Jr.

He initiated construction of the canal at the Cascades of the Columbia River and built the famous Tillamook Rock Lighthouse off the Oregon coast.

Lasionycta sasquatch

It is found in the Washington Cascades south of Snoqualmie Pass, Saddle Mountain in the Oregon Coast Range, and the Siskiyou Mountains in south-western Oregon.

McCloud Railway 25

In late March, 2011, 25 was moved from McCloud, California to Tillamook, Oregon after it was purchased by the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad.

Nelscott Reef

Nelscott Reef is the only spot on the Oregon coast to produce double overhead waves, thus the event brings in big name surfers, such as Peter Mel and Adam Replogle.

Siletzia

Measurements of such paleomagnetic fields in the Oregon Coast Range show rotations of 46 to 75°, all of it following the presumed accretion to the continent (alternately, formation) of the Siletz terrane at about 50 Ma.

Tillamook County, Oregon

U.S. Route 101, traveling the length of the Oregon Coast, brings many travelers through the county by car and bike.