State of Oregon - Clatsop
County
Clatsop County. Bounded north by the
Columbia River; east by Columbia County; south by
Tillamook and Washington; and west by the Pacific Ocean.
Area, 1,491 square miles. Assessed valuation of property
for 1874, $515,000. Population, 1,600.
County seat,
Astoria. Principal towns: Clatsop, Fort Stevens, Knappa,
Lexington, Nehalem, Summer House, and Westport. Clatsop
County forms the extreme northwest of the State, and is
distinguished as the first point settled upon by
Americans on the west coast of the continent.
At Point
Adams and other places along the river in Clatsop, and
also at Cape Disappointment on the Washington side of
the Columbia, the United States Government has
constructed extensive fortifications, which are armed
with ordnance of the heaviest caliber, and command the
entrance to the mouth of the river. A light-house and
fog signal have also been erected at Point Adams. In
approaching the coast, the high hills and bluffs coming
abruptly in many instances to the water's edge, give a
forbidding appearance and create a wrong impression as
to the character of the country inland.
Nehalem, Lewis &
Clarke and Young's rivers, with several other small
streams, run through pleasant and fertile valleys, where
are thousands of acres of fine agricultural lands
protected from the fierce coast winds, and very inviting
to settlement.
Extensive tracts of these lands are yet
unoccupied and unclaimed, and only wait the magic touch
of industry to convert them into fruitful fields and
happy homes. The forests constitute a grand source of
wealth, and the numerous mill streams, with harbors
convenient, offer great inducements to lumbermen.
The
climate is mild and healthful, the heat seldom exceeding
seventy-five degrees in summer, nor does the cold reach
below fifteen degrees of Fahrenheit In winter.
Officers: L. Q. A. Bowlby, County Judge; R. R. Spedden,
Clerk, Recorder and Auditor: H. Y. Thompson, District
Attorney; W. H. Twilight, Sheriff and Tax Collector; I.
W. Case, Treasurer; E. A, Taylor, Assessor; H. P.
Gearhart, Surveyor and Superintendent Public Schools; D.
E. Pease, Coroner.
Pacific Coast Business Directory
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Oregon Territory Index
Oregon Directory and Gazetteer
Source: Pacific Coast Business
Directory for 1876-78, Compiled by Henry G. Langley, San
Francisco, 1875.
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