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Clatsop County, Oregon
NATURAL
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ATLAS
HUMAN
ECONOMIC
PUBLIC
September 1973
Oregon State University Extension Service
Prepared by Marilyn Ruttle, Research Assistant,
Under the supervision of
Robert 0 Coppedge,
Extension Economist, and Russell C. Youmans,
Extension Resource Economist
Department of Agricultural Economics
For sale by the Extension Business Office, Extension Hall 118,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
$2 50 per copy
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General Description
Physical Aspects.
Climate .....
Soil Characteristics and Land
Land Ownership and Land Use
Agricultural Land
Forest Land
Water
Water-based Recreation.
Minerals
Wildlife.
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........
.
Human Resources
Population.
Employment.
Income......
Education .........
Health and Vital Statistics
Public Welfare ......
Housing
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The County's Economy.
Agriculture ........
Logging and Wood Products
Manufacturing
{ining - Mineral and Metal Industries
Outdoor
Business
Commercial Fishing and Shipping
Recreation..........
Public Services
Transportation.
Communication
Library Facilities.
Utilities
.
.
.....
Public Finance.
Selected List of Agencies
Selected Bibliography
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Clatsop County is located in the northwestern corner of Oregon, bordered
on the north by the Columbia River and on the west by the Pacific Ocean
The
county covers 843 square miles and 515,200 acres
The population is steadily
increasing and in 1972 it totaled 28,800 people
Astoria, the county seat and largest city, has maintained a population
of 10,500 for the past seven years
It is located on Young's Bay, 10 miles
from the mouth of the Columbia River and approximately 100 miles northwest
of Portland.
Most of the county is forest land with only 4 6 percent of the land in
This percentage indicates a substantial drop from 7 7 percent of the
county's land in farms in 1964
farms
Fish constitute a major natural resource
The Columbia River salmon, in
the past the founctation of the Astoria fishing industry, are yielding their
lead to albacore tuna, shark, and other ocean fish
Mineral resources are limited
Clays in the vicinity of Astoria have
been used in the manufacture of brick and pipe
Other minerals found in the
county are iron, pyrites, quartz, diatomite, natural gas, lignitic coal, sandstone, and basalt.
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A brief summary of other data for the county is given below.
Area:
843 square miles
515,200 acres
Elevation at Astoria:
19 feet
Population:
28,800
(July, 1972)
True Cash Value:
$409,162,271
(1972)
Average Temperature
Summer - 60 7
Winter - 43 3
County Seat:
Principal Industries
Fishing, Lumbering, Agriculture,
Recreation
Astoria
Oregon State Executive Department, Clay Meyers, Secretary of State, Oregon
Blue Book, 1973-74, January 1973.
PHYSICAL ASPECTS
Practically all of Clatsop County has the rough broken terrain characteristic of the Coast Range Mountains. The highest peak in the county is
Saddle Mountain, with an elevation of 3,266 feet, located in the central
portion of the county. Level bottom lands that are excellent for farming
border the Columbia River and Youngs Bay.
The ocean beaches of Clatsop County border the western part of the
county and are among the most popular recreationareas in Oregon.
The Klaskanine, Youngs, and Lewis and Clark Rivers drain the northern
two-thirds of the county and enter the Columbia River at Youngs Bay. To
the south, the Necanicum River drains directly into the Pacific Ocean. The
Nehalem River drains the southeastern corner of the county and enters the
ocean at Nehalem Bay in Tillamook County. A number of smaller streams also
are part of the drainage system in Clatsop County and drain directly into
the Pacific Ocean or the Columbia River.
Climate
Mild temperatures and heavy rainfall characterize the climate of Clatsop
County
The coastal region receives more rainfall and experiences less temperature variation than the eastern part of the county
At Astoria, the average
January minimum temperature is 36 F. and the average August maximum temperature
is 69 F., while at Jewell in the southeastern part of the county these monthly
averages are 31 F and 76°F
Precipitation averages 76 inches annually at
Astoria and 71 inches at Jewell
The growing season ranges from 166 days in
the eastern part of the county to 273 days or more around Astoria
The following tables give information on the weather stations in Clatsop
County and the temperatures and precipitation recorded at those stations.
Table 1
Weather Stations and their Elevations, Clatsop County
Station
Elevation in Feet
Astoria Experiment Station
Astoria
48
200
AstoriaWB AP
8
Jewell Wildlife Meadows
Nehalem 9 NE
Saddle Mountain Peak
Seaside
SOURCE:
570
145
1,550
10
U.S. Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau, Decennial Census
of U.S. Climate, Supplement for 1951 through 1960, Oregon No. 86-31,
1965.
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Table 2.
Temperature and Precipitation, Clatsop County, By Month, 1951-60 Averages
Station
Jan.
Feb. Mar. Apr. May
Average
Temperature
Astoria Exp.
Station
Astoria
AstoriaWBAp
Seaside
June July Aug. Sep. Oct.
Dec.f Annual
degrees Farenheit
411434438484529568601604591540464431508
411429436487538572604604594541466434510
-------NA*
-435448448486531568592597588546482454515
Total
Precipitation
Astoria Exp.
Station
Astoria
Nov.
inches
14.82 10.36 9.77 5.40 3.12 3.45
.97 1.64 3.05 8.41 11.99 13.28 86.26
1402 947885488264354120168362795113413138232
AstoriaWBAP 1138 811779477284344108153291737109110837296
Seaside
1478 959918557291317115159295755104812048096
*NA - temperature data are not available for this station.
SOURCE
U S Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau, Decennial Census of U S
Supplement for 1951 through 1960, Oregon No. 86-31, 1965.
Table 3
Station
Mean Daily
Maximum Temp.
Climate,
Mean Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperatures, Clatsop County,
By Month, 1951-1960 Averages
Jan.
Feb.
ay
June IJu1y Aug. JSep. Oct. jNov. IDec. Annual
degrees Farenheit
Astora Exp.
Station....
Astoria 1/
47.3 51.1 52.5 58.4 63.0 65.5 69.6 69.9 70.2 64.0 55.0 49.9
45 7 48 3 49 9 56 3 62 1 64 5 68 3 67 9 67 3 60 8 52 3 48 5
Seaside......49.6 51.8 52.6 56.9 61.3 63.7 66.8 67.3 68.8 63.7 56.6 52.3
59.7
57 7
59.3
Mean Daily
Minimum Temp.
degrees Farenheit
Astoria Exp.
Station
349357 35138442848150450848044037 7363 419
Astorial/
364373372411454498525529514473409382 442
Seaside
37.3 37.6 37.0 40.4 44.8 49.8 51.6 52.0 48.7 45.5 39.8 38.4
The record for this station is the average of less than the full 10 year
period
SOURCE
U S Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau, Decennial Census of U S
Climate, Supplement for 1951 through 1960, Oregon No. 86-31, 1965.
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Table 4.
Station
Astoria Exp
Station
Astoria
Seaside
Freeze Data for Clatsop County, By Month, 1951-1960
Mean Number of Days with Temperature of 32°F. Or Below
Jan.Feb. Mar.IApr.IMay I JuneiJulylAug. ISep. Oct.INov. IDec.IAnnual
11
8
8
9
4
6
11
6
1
0
0
4
1/
0
0
8
3
1/
1/
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1/
2
9
9
0
1
2
3
6
6
58
21
38
Less than 0.5 days.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Weather
Bureau, Decennial Census of U.S.
Climate, Supplement for 1951 through 1960, Oregon No. 86-31, 1965.
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For more recent climatological data on Clatsop County, see U.S. Department
of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental
Data Service, Climatological Data, Annual Summary 1971, Vol. 77, No. 13, 1971.
Soils 1/
The only extensive soil survey of Clatsop County was done in 1949 by
the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station and includes 280 of the county's
843 square miles.
Elevations in the county range from sea level to 3,266 feet in the coast
range mountains.
The climate in the west and northwest is characterized by
high annual rainfall and long, cool growing seasons. In the eastern part of
the county along the Nehalem River, the growing season is shorter and the
summers are warmer and the winters are cooler.
The soils of the area fall into six groups:
soils of the uplands or
hills, soils of the terraces, soils of the flood plains, soils from windblown sands, organic soils, and miscellaneous land types
The soils of the uplands or hills are derived from the weatheringof
sandstone and shale. Of these, Astoria loam and silt loam have been mapped.
The soils of the terraces are derived from old weathered unconsolidated
alluvial deposits They are classified in the Knappa, Klaskanine, Cinebar,
Crande Ronde, and Hebo series
The soils of the flood plains are derived
from recent alluvial material on bottom lands and include the Nehalem, Brenner,
Sauvie, and Clatsop series
The Clatsop soils are typical tide lands with
much organic matter in the surface soil
The soils derived from wind-laid
materials have been formed from sand drifted in from the ocean
They are of
the Gearhart series, the most stabilized of the well drained soils of the
group, the Westport series, which is very young, and the Warrenton soils, which
show some development and are poorly drained.
U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research AdministratiOn, Bureau of Plant Industry,
Soils and Agricultural Engineering in cooperation with the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, Soil Survey--Astoria Area, Oregon.
The organic soils are divided into two groups. The peat soils mapped
along the coast are the Spalding peat and the Brailler peat
They contain
a very high percentage of organic matter and are derived largely from the
decomposition of sphagnum moss, sedges, and some woody spruce material
The
Spalding peat has a light brown to straw color and is the less decomposed
of the two
The beach and sanddune areas, averaging about half a mile wide,
begin at the Columbia River and extend South to Seaside
The areas between
the highway and the coast range are old sand dunes covered with a thick
layer of organic material.
For further definitions and explanations of specific soil types, see
the following table and the publication cited.
Table 5.
Important Characteristics of Soils of Astoria, Oregon Area
Soil
Alluvial soils,
undifferentiated
Topography
Internal
Drainage
J
Parent Material
Astoria loam
Nearly level, uneven
microreijef
Rolling to hilly
Medium
Astoria silt loam
Rolling to hilly
Medium
Weathered material
from sandstone and
shale
Astoria soils,
undifferentiated.
Rolling to steep
Medium
Brallier peat
Level
Slow, high
water table
Weathered material
from sandstone and
shale
Organic materials
from sedge and
sphagnum moss
Brenner silty
clay loam
Level
Slow, high
water table
Recent alluvium from
Clatsop silt loam
Smooth to gently
undulating
Nearly level
Slow, high
water table
Slow, high
water table
Gravelly alluvium
from mixed materials
Recent alluvium from
mixed materials
Clatsop silty
clay loam
Nearly level
Slow, high
water table
Recent alluvium from
mixed materials
Coastal beach
Dune sand
Dune
Rapid
Wind modified from
mixed materials
Gearhart fine
sandy loam
Dunelike
Medium to
rapid
Wind modified from
mixed materials
Generally slow
Recent alluvium from
mixed materials
Weathered material
from sandstone and
shale
Cinebar silt loam.
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Astoria and associated soils
Table 5, cont.
Important Characteristics of Soils of Astoria, Oregon Area
Soil
Grand Ronde
silty clay loam
Topography
Internal
Drainage
Parent Material
Gently sloping to
slightly undulating
Slow
Old alluvium from
Astoria and associated soils
Nearly level
Very slow
Old alluvium from
Astoria and associated soils
Nearly level
Very slow
Old alluvium from
Astoria and associated soils
Steeply sloping
Medium
Knappa loam
Nearly level to
undulating
Medium
Marsh
Nearly level to
undulating
Nearly level to
slightly undulating
Very slow, high
water table
Medium, high
water table
Nearly level to
slightly undulating
Medium, high
water table
Gravelly alluvium
from mixed materials
Old alluvium from
Astoria and associated soils
Alluvium from mixed
materials
Recent alluvium from
Astoria and associated soils
Recent alluvium from
Astoria and associated soils
Smooth to slightly
undulating
Medium
Riverwash
Nearly level
Variable
Sauvie silt loam
Nearly level
Slow, high
water table
Sauvie silty
clay loam
Recent alluvium from
Astoria and associated soils
Recent alluvium from
mixed materials
Recent alluvium from
mixed materials
Nearly level
Spalding peat
Level
Slow, high
water table
Slow, high
water table
Warrenton loamy
fine sand
Recent alluvium from
mixed materials
Organic material from
sphagnum moss
Nearly level
Slow, high
water table
Wind modified from
mixed materials
Dunelike
Rapid
Wind modified from
mixed materials
Hebo silty
clay loam
Gravelly subsoil phase
Klaskanine silt
10 am
Nehalem loam
Nehalem silt loam.
Nehalem silty
clay loam
Westport fine
sand
SOURCE:
U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Administration, Bureau of Plant Industry,
Soils and Agricultural Engineering in cooperation with the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, Soil Survey--Astoria Area, Oregon.
Soil Characteristics and Land Capability
Table 6.
Land Area and Use of Inventory Acreage, Clatsop County, 1967
Use
Total land area
Acres
524,800
Inventory Acreage
Cropland ............................
14,516
3,894
Pasture
Range
Forest and woodland
Other land
483,688
3,786
Total inventory acreage
505,884
Percent total land in inventory
o
96.4%
Non-Inventory Acreage
Federal land
Urban and built-up areas
Water areas
Total non-inventory acreage
SOURCE:
4,100
9,216
5,600
18,916
Oregon Conservation Needs Committee, Oregon Soil and Water Conservation Needs Inventory, U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service and Oregon
State University Extension Service, 1971.
An interpretive grouping of soils into "Land Capability Classification"
has been developed by the Soil Conservation Service
This grouping shows,
in general, how suitable soils are for most kinds of farming. Soil characteristics such as depth, texture, wetness, slope, erosion hazard, overflow
hazard, permeability, structure, reactions waterholding capacity, inherent
fertility, and climatic conditions as they influence the use and management
of land are considered in grouping soils into eight land capability classes.
These eight classes are designated by Roman numerals.
The hazards and limitations of use of the groups increase as the class number increases. Class
I land has few hazards or limitations, whereas Class VIII land is so limited
that it is unfit for cultivation and grazing
This land can be used only
for recreation, wildlife habitat, or water supply.
Table 7.
Use of Clatsop County Inventory Acreage by Capability Class, 1967
Capability Class
Cropland
I
I
Use in Acres
Pasture-Range I Forest
O
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
O
O
O
O
VIII
Total
SOURCE:
0
0
0
3,509
5,539
5,468
14,516
0
0
0
Other Land
0
9,462
10,051
2,892
0
64
0
1,079
J
Total
0
13,035
15,590
9,439
0
0
0
1,500
3,894
254,092
207,191
0
0
1,143
255,592
211,085
1,143
3,894
483,688
3,786
505,884
0
Oregon Conservation Needs Committee, Oregon Soil and Water Conservation
Needs Inventory, U S D A Soil Conservation Service and Oregon State
University Extension Service, 1971.
Table 8.
Conservation Treatment Needs, Clatsop County, 1967
Classification
ALL CROPLAND
Cropland needing treatment
Type of treatment needed:
Residue cover
Drainage
Management
ALL PASTURE
Pasture needing treatment
Type of treatment needed:
Improvement of vegetation
Brush control and improvement
Reestablishment with brush control
SOURCE:
I
Acres
14,516
8,013
2,478
4,712
823
3,894
3 ,294
1,200
1,500
594
Oregon Conservation Needs Committee, Oregon Soil and, Water Conservation Needs Inventory, U S D.A Soil Conservation Service and Oregon
State University ExtensIon Service, 1971.
Land Ownership and Land Use
In this publication, land ownership is classified as public lands,
including federal, state, and county, or private land
The federal government owns only 1 1 percent of the land in Clatsop County
However, the
state owns 29 9 percent of the land
Most of the state land is forest land
with a large percentage also owned by the Highway Division and used for
state parks along the ocean beaches and in the interior parts of the county
The county also owns 1.1 percent of the land. The tables that follow give
the land ownership by agency in both federal and state governments and total
land use in the county.
Table 9.
Land Use and Ownership, Clatsop County, 1964
Clatso. Count
Acres
Percent
Item
Total land area
State
Percent
524,800
100.00
100.00
3,967
---
0.77
--0 29
2 12
Land Use
Urban
Industrial
Military
Intensive agriculture
Dryland farming...
Forests
Parks
Conservation
Grazing
Non-productive land
.
1,494
10,922
--468,059
7,934
--16,383
6,440
90.85
1.54
3.18
1.25
0.49
0 16
0 10
6 52
3.33
44.84
0.32
2.25
41.50
0.49
356,555
168,245
5,610
156,868
5,767
67.94
32 10
1.10
29.90
1.10
44.20
55 80
51.80
2.90
1.10
Land Ownership
Tot,al private land ownership
Total public land ownership
Federal
State
Local
SOURCE:
Oregon Department of Planning and Development, Resources for
Development, 1964.
Table 10.
Inventory of State-Owned Real Property, Clatsop County, 1970
Agency
Acres
Fish Commission
Dept. of Forestry
Game Commission
Oregon State
University.
University of
Oregon
Division of
State Lands
Military Dept
Aeronautics Div
Highway Division
90.82
145,442.32
183.35
SOURCE:
Improv.
Value
Value
Total
Value
37,300
56,020,041
34,030
152,240
130,060
26,370
113.40
67,414
355,971
.12
100
1,974.35
1,563,012
33.00
1,670,000
6,518,000
33,000
1,670,000
8,081,012
33,000
7,770.32
448,826
1,543,073
1,991,899
6.87
16,819
238,885
255,704
157,480.41
$64,845,530
$4,009,611
$68,855,141
1, 865
Office &
Maintenance..
Totals
Land
. 86
$
$
189,540
56,150,101
60,400
423,385
816
$
126
1,260
100
1,020
$3,222
Legislative Fiscal Committee, Inventory of State-Owned Real Property,
By County, Sec. 7, 115 State Capital, Salem, Oregon, 1970.
Table 11
Land Area in Highways, Streets, and Roads, Clatsop County
Ownership
Acres
Percent
State highways
County roads
City streets
1,820
1,620
540
45.7
40.7
13.6
Total
3,980
100.0
SOURCE:
Annual
Rental
Income
Oregon State Department of Revenue and Oregon State Highway
Division, unpublished data.
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Agricultural Land
Only 4.6 percent of Clatsop County land is used for agriculture. Most
of this land is located along the Columbia River and Youngs Bay bottomlands
The land is divided into 10,194 acres of cropland, 8,626 acres of woodland,
including woodland pasture, and 4,925 acres of other land.
Only 489 of the
23,745 acres in farms is irrigated.
Table 12.
Land in Farms, Clatsop County, 1964 and 1969
1964
Item
Acres
1969
Percent
Acres
Percent
Total land area
Proportion in farms
515,205
100.00
7.6%
514,944
100.00
4.6%
Acres in farms
Cropland harvested
Cropland pasture
Other cropland
Woodland, including
woodland pasture
Other land
39,501
7,448
6,577
23,745
3,684
6,455
750
100.00
19 00
17.00
2.00
55
100.00
16 00
27.00
0.20
12,146
12,568
31.00
32.00
8,626
4,925
36.00
21.00
209
0.50
489
2.00
Irrigated land..
SOURCE:
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Agriculture, 1969, Vol. 1,
Area Reports, Part 47, Oregon, U S Government Printing Off ice,
Washington, D.C., 1972.
Forest Land Forest land accounts for 93 percent of the total land area in Clatsop
Half of the land is owned by the public and the other half is owned
by private individuals and the forest industry
The commercial forest land
encompasses 89 percent of the total land area of the county.
The commercial
forest land is owned by the state (147,000 acres), the forest industry
(259,000 acres), and farmers and miscellaneous private individuals (59,000
County.
acres).
Estimates by the Oregon State Division of Forestry, Crown Zellerbach,
and Boise Cascade indicate that the average production per acre on Clatsop
County forest land is 700 board feet per acre per year
In the early 1900's
the forest was cut at a very high rate which depleted the stock so that
harvests were low
However, in recent years the harvest has increased to
the point that it is near the sustained yield level.
Meyers, Joseph D., Richard T. Leonard, and Oscar K. Granger, A Plan for
Land and Water Use, Clatsop County, Oregon, Phase I, Skidmore, Owings,
and Merrill, Architects and Planners, Portland, Oregon, 1973.
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The following tables give information on the forest land types and
ownership and volume of growing stock and sawtimber on forest lands
For
additional information, see the U S Forest Service Resource Bulletin PNW-7,
available from the Pacific Northwest Range and Experiment Station, Box 3141,
Portland, Oregon, 97213
Table 13.
Forest Acreage, Ownership and Use, Clatsop County, 1963
Item
Acres
LAND
Total land
Forest land
Commercial
Unproductive
Productive-reserved
Nonforest land
OWNERSHIP
All ownerships
National forest
Other public
Forest industry
Farmer and miscellaneous private.
SOURCE:
Percent
525,000
488,000
465,000
19,000
4,000
37,000
100
3,954,000
1,075,000
883,000
945,000
1,051,000
100
93
89
4
1
7
27
22
27
27
U.S. Forest Service, Forest Statistics for Northwest Oregon,
Resource Bulletin PNW-7, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range
Experiment Station, 1964.
Table 14.
Volume of All Growing Stock and Sawtimber by Ownership,
Clatsop County, 1963
Ownership
Total Commercial
Growing Stock
Total Commercial
Sawtimber
million
cubic ft.
percent
OWNERSHIP
National forest
Other public
Forest industry
Farmer and misc
private
517
1,186
25.24
57.91
2,249
5,979
22.68
60.28
16.84
1,690
17.03
Total
2,048
100.00
9,918
100.00
1/
million
1/
board ft.
percent
International 1/4 inch rule, not available in Scribner log rule.
U.S. Forest Service, Forest Statistics for Northwest Oregon,
Resource Bulletin PNW-7, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range
Experiment Station, 1964,
SOURCE:
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Table 15.
Volume of All Growing Stock and Sawtimber on Commercial Forest
Land by Species, Clatsop County, 1963
Species
All Growing Stock
million
cubic ft.
All species
Softwoods
Douglas fir
Pines
True firs
Sitka spruce
Western hemlock
Western red cedar...
Other softwoods
Hardwoods
Red alder
Bigleaf maple
2,048
1,828
315
Sawt imber
million
percent
100.00
89.25
15.38
board ft.
7,789
6,944
969
percent
100.00
89.15
12.44
5
24
15
19
389
1,053
4,644
13.51
59.62
53
18.99
49.12
2.58
263
3.37
220
197
23
10.74
9.61
1.12
845
701
144
10.84
8.99
1.84
1,006
Scribner log rule.
SOURCE: U.S. Forest Service, Forest Statistics for Northwest Oregon,
1/
Resource Bulletin PNW-7, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range
Experiment Station, 1964.
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Water -
The occurrence and distribution of water, whether surface or subsurface,
within Clatsop County is dependent upon many factors including precipitation,
topography, geology, soils, vegetations, winds, waves, and tides
Over 100 inches of precipitation falls annually
on rocks that are relatively impervious and on steep
this, the water is not held in the ground to return
streams in the late summer and early fall
Instead,
during the winter when the precipitation is heavy.
in parts of the county
slopes. Because of
to the ocean thogh
the streams flood
The major portions of the northeastern, southwestern, and scattered
areas of the central part of the county are overlaid by volcanic rocks made
up of Columbia River basalt and associated intrusives. Underlying the volcanics are sedimentary formations, principally of shale, sandstone, and
conglomerate. These sediments are exposed throughout the county, particularly
in the western portion,
They are fine grained, tightly compacted, relatively
impermeable, and contain little ground water.
Alluvial deposits of varying porosity and permeability make up the lowlands along the Columbia River, the coastal belt, and the main streams
The
coarse volcanic alluvium and terrace deposits formed by the Columbia River
basalt make good aquifers, whereas the sedimentary alluvium is generally too
fine grained to transmit substantial quantities of water.
1/
Meyers, Joseph D., Richard T. Leonard, Oscar K. Granger, A Plan for Land
and Water Use, Clatsop County, Oregon, Phase I, Skidmore, Owings, and
Merrill, Architects and Planners, Portland, Oregon, 1973.
- 13 -
Although portions of the county experience flooding after periods of
sustained rainfall due to the low permeability of the soil, there is little
of the flash-type flooding created by high intensity storms.
The county has been organized into seven major watershed areas. The
Knappa area watershed is made up of Plympton Creek, Gnat Creek-Blind Slough,
Big Creek, Bear Creek, and the John Day River. They all drain into the
Columbia River.
The Youngs River watershed includes the Youngs, Walluski,
and Klaskanine Rivers and their tributaries. This watersheds along with
the Lewis and Clark River watershed, empties into Youngs Bay.
The Clatsop
Plains watershed is comprised of the Skipanon River and Neonoxie Creek.
Groundwater drainage occurs primarily through beach weeps and underfiow in
this watershed.
The Necanicum River watershed drains directly into the
Pacific Ocean between Seaside and Gearhart, and the Elk Creek watershed drains
into the ocean at Cannon Beach
Finally, the Nehalem River watershed drains
all of the southwestern part of the county andenters the Pacific to the
south,
in Tiflamook County.
Although there are at present no recording stream gauages operating in
the county, the flow is estimated by correlation and the flow adjusted
to
stream mouth. Very low flows occur during July, August, and September due
to the high degree of runoff during the winter. Peak flows occur during
December, January, and February when the precipitation is heaviest.
Table 16.
Stream
Big Creek
Youngs River
North Fork
Kiaskanine R
Nehalem River
(Foss)
Mean Monthly Stream Flows, Clatsop County
Oct.J Nov.
Stream Flows in Cubic Feet Per Second
Jan.
Feb. Mar.
Apr. IMay IJune(July Aug.JSep.
Dec.
66
96
166
276
307
409
396
382
382
364
287
277
205
177
97
78
62
45
43
20
30
10
27
17
31
82
133
175
139
105
66
25
17
12
6
6
922 3,606 6,309 5,887 6,644 4,143 2,707 1,246
549
262
146
183
1/
Years of record are as follows:
Big Creek, 7 years; Youngs River, 31 years;
Kiaskanine River, 6 years, Nehalem River, 19 years
SOURCE
Meyers, Joseph D , Richard T Leonard, Oscar K Granger, A Plan for Land
and Water Use, Clatsop County, Oregon, Phase I, Skidmore, Owings, and
Merrill, Architects and Planners, Portland, Oregon, 1973.
- 14 -
Table 17.
Annual Yield of Representative Streams, Clatsop County
Stream and
Gaging Point
Bear Creek near Svensen..
Nehalem River near Foss..
Drainage
Area
sq. miles
Years
of
Record
3.33
667.00
3
29
Mean Annual Yield
acre-feet/
2/
acre-f eetsq. mile
NA*
1,957,000
NA*
2,904
*NA - not available.
1/
Annual yield of surface water is the net yield, or quantity of water,
leaving a drainage area during the hydrologic, or water year, which
extends from October 1 of one year to September 30 of the following year.
Net yield is the precipitation on the area minus evaporation, transpiration, and net underground percolation. Average or mean annual yield
actually reflects a composite of constantly changing conditions due to
withdrawals from stream flow and changes in watershed characteristics
2/
Acre-feet equals the quantity of water (43,650 cu. ft.) that covers one
acre to a depth of one foot.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Water Resources
Division, Water Resources Data for Oregon, Part 1, Surface Water
Records, 1968.
Table 18.
Extremes of Discharge at Selected Stations, Clatsop County
Stream and Location
Bear Creek near Svensen..
Nehalem River near Foss..
1/
Maximum Discharge
Year I Flow (cfs).Y
Minimum Discharge
Year I Flow (cfs)l/
1966
1964
1967
1967
185
43,200
L2
34
cfs - cubic feet per second.
U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey, Water Resources
Division, Water Resources Data for Oregon, Part 1, Surface Jater
Records, 1968.
SOURCE:
There are presently 25 water systems within Clatsop County serving
appio.cimately 25,000 people
Astoria, the largest city in the county, holds
muncipal rights for a total of 68 cfs, including a right for 26 cfs granted
after September 1960
In addition, it has irrigation rights and supplemental
rights of one cfs each on Smith Lake and has a claimed right from the Astoria
Reservoir on Bear Creek, dating back before the turn of the century. Rights
held by the city include 49 cfs on Youngs River, 16 cfs on Big Creek, and 3
cfs on Bear Creek. Astoria's present source of water is from Bear Creek where,
in addition to the large Astoria Reservoir mentioned above, they have Middle
Lake and Wickiup Lake connected to their supply system
The maximum system
capacity is approximately 5 5 million gallons per day (gpd) and the average
use, 2 5 to 3 0 million gpd
The city has an ample water supply and distribution to meet the present and probably future demand within the city limits
for domestic water. However, it is not in a position to supply any heavy
industrial water users, and, for this reason, has secured additional water
rights.
The quality of the water is very good.
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The City of Warrenton is the second largest holder of municipal water
rights within the county, with a total of 46 cfs from the Lewis and Clark
River and tributaries.
Seaside holds a total of 15 cfs municipal rights,
with 8 on the South Fork of the Necanicum and 7 on the Necanicum main
stem
Cannon Beach has municipal rights for 2 cfs.
The following table gives data for other water systems within Clatsop
County.
Table 19.
Cit
Clatsop County Municipal Water Supplies
or District
Population
Served, 1972
Westport Water Association
Wauna Water District
290
160
Brownsmead Water District
110
Knappa Co-op Water Comp
Carmen Creek Water Assoc
Wickiup Water District
City of Astoria
220
30
Lewis & Clark Water District
War rent on
1,100
15,500
1,570
4,000
Surf Pines Development .......
200
Seaside
4,400
Cannon Beach
Western Shoreways
Kent-Price Water System
Arch Cape Water Comp
1,030
40
80
165
Falcon Cove Beach-Domestic....
SOURCE:
40
Water Source
Treatment
West Creek
Unnamed stream
and springs
Mack, Rock Ck.
chlorination
none
Mill Creek
Carmen Creek
Little Creek
Big, Bear Cr.,
Youngs River
Barney Creek
Lewis & Clark
River & three
tributaries
Clatsop Plains,
dune wells
Necanicum R.,
Brandis Cr.
2 springs
2 springs
Asbury Creek
2 springs,
1 creek
2 springs
hypo-chlor i-
nation
chlorination
chlorination
chlorination
& fluoridation
chlorination
fluoridation
and lime
chlorination
none
none
chlorination
chlorination
none
Meyers, Joseph D., Richard T. Leonard, and Oscar R. Granger, A Plan
f or Land and Water Use, Clatsop County, Oregon, Phase I, Skidmore,
Owings, and Merrill, Architects and Planners, Portland, Oregon, 1973
The State Sanitary Authority lists Seaside as having a secondary treatment
plant, and Cannon Beach as having lagoon treatment. Systems having no treatment,
discharging untreated sewage, include Astoria and Astoria Airport. Astoria discharges into the Columbia River and Astoria Airport discharges into Youngs Bay.
Warrenton has the best sewage disposal and treatment facility in the county,
but unfortunately not all residents are served by it. Strong tidal action has
eliminated the need for any further treatment in Astoria to date, according to
the Clatsop County Water Resources Committee. In the Bradwood, Wauna, and
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Westport areas, there is some sewage drainage into the Columbia and sloughs,
but due to decreased industrial waste and decreased population, sewage disposal is not a major problem at this time.
Table 20.
Sewage Treatment Plants, Clatsop County, 1972
Design
Location
Westport School
Sundown Sanitary Dist
Wauna Mill
Fishhawk Lake
Tongue Point Center
Warrenton
Cullaby Lake
Seaside
Cannon Beach
o 'ulation
B
50
500
A
A,B
-3/
2/
1,000
B
A
B
B
B
B
Population
Served
4,500
500
10,000
2,150
36
400
1,000
-4,400
Receiving
Stream
Plympton Cr.
Youngs River
Columbia R.
Fishhawk Cr.
Columbia R.
Columbia R.
Skipanon R.
Necanicum R.
Elk Creek
Types of treatment: A - primary,
B - secondary.
40 million gallons per day - Capacity of sewerage system must equal or
better capacity of water supply system and mill generated wastes.
Not completed at present.
3/
SOURCE
Meyers, Joseph D , Richard T Leonard, and Oscar R Granger, A Plan
for Land and Water Use, Clatsop County, Oregon, Phase I, Skidmore,
Owings, and Merrill, Architects and Planners, Portland, Oregon, 1973.
1/
2/
The present industrial demand f0r water in the sub-basin is concentrated
at Astoria and Warrenton
Annual industrial use for Astoria and Warrenton
totals nearly 1,400 acre-feet
These are negligible quantities compa'ed to
flows of the Columbia River, and this water is satisfactory in quality for
most industrial purposes.
There are no water rights for mining in the county. Present mining
operations are confined to sand and gravel and building stone. The principal
problems associated with sand and gravel operations are disturbance of gravel
beds used for fish spawning and turbidity in the streams, which is detrimental
to come downstream users.
There are no water rights for wildlife within the county. The streams,
coastal areas, and lands along the Columbia are used by game animals and
waterfowl. Large animals hunted include elk, deer, and bear. Smaller animals
include muskrat, beaver, mink, coyote, bobcat, raccoon, and the majority of
the waterfowl species normally found in western Oregon
Waterfowl are numerous from Seaside north along the coast, and along
the Columbia River from the mouth to the vicinity of the Beaver Military Reservation
Beaver are distributed generally along the major streams of Clatsop
County. Muskrat are found near the coast from Seaside to Hammond, along the
lower reaches of the Lewis and Clark and Youngs Rivers, and along the Columbia
from the mouth of the John Day River to Blind Slough.
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Water rights for propagation of fish total 83 cfs for Clatsop
County.
The Fish Commission holds a 50 cfs right for a fish hatchery
on the North
Fork of the Klaskanine River, and a 26 cfs right for
a fish hatchery on
Big Creek. In addition, the Game
Commission has recently been granted a
permit for 6 cfs on Gnat Creek
There are also small diversion rights and
reservoir rights held by private parties for fish culture.
Spring chinook are not generally found in the county due to their preference for larger streams for spawning. Fall chinook are found along short
stretches of the Lewis and Clark and Youngs Rivers and Big, Bear,
and Gnat
Creeks.
A dam and weir provided with upstream and downstream
traps was constructed on Gnat Creek in 1954 for further study of natural spawning of
salmon and steelhead. The study includes measuring
the survival of hatcheryreared fingerlings released into Gnat Creek, determining the effects
of varying
flows on the production of young fish, and determining the efficiency of
reproduction by permitting known numbers of adult spawners to ascend above
the weir.
In addition to the Gnat Creek weir, two hatcheries in the
county are
operated by the Fish Commission.
These are located on Big Creek and North
Fork Klaskanine River. The Big Creek and Klaskanine
hatcheries have been
enlarged under the Columbia River Fishery Development Program.
Over 61
million salmon and steelhead fingerlings had been released from these
four
stations during the period 1951 to 1960.
All of the lands classed by the U S Department of Agriculture as arable
within the county are also classed as potentially irrigable
without regard
to the present agricultural use of the land or the economics involved.
The
U.S.D.A. reports that because the climate of the county is conducive
to the
production of grass and legume forage crops for pasture, silage, and hay,
these have become the predominant crops
These crops sustain dairy and livestock production
About 85 percent of the land irrigated is in hay and pasture
and it is anticipated that future expansion of irrigation will continue to be
predominantly for the production of these two crops.
It is believed that irrigated acreage will continue to increase in the
future, although this will be limited by physical and economic factors
Part
of the land is presently in forests and the economic feasibility of
clearing
much of this land will be questionable
In some areas, there would be a
further limitation on availability of summer water for
irrigation purposes
unless storage is provided
From an economic standpoint, expansion of the
market for livestock products will probably be the most
important factor
influencing irrigation development
Severe wind erosion is a problem in certain areas along the coast
Much work has already been done in stabilization of sand dunes in the
county.
Although there is no widespread flood control project in Clatsop County,
the county has taken steps to eliminate some of the damage done by
flooding
They have begun an air photo mapping program of the most hazardous floodplain
areas and, because of a recently completed soil survey, are able to know the
general location of all flood prone areas in the county.
- 18 -
Water-based Recreation
There are no water rights for recreation in the county. As is generally
true, however, the value of water to recreation is not measured by the amount
of rights held
There are numerous lakes, rivers, and streams in the county
that are used for recreation purposes, the largest being Cullaby Lake with a
surface area of 216 acres. There are two major bays, Youngs and Cathiamet,
and the Columbia River, which is used extensively for fishing and boating
There are 18 square miles of tidal marshland reported by Clatsop County
Duck Hunters Association
These tidal lands have no apparent economic value
to the county other than offering fine waterfowl hunting for Oregon sportsmen.
Minerals
Magnetite, an ore of iron, is found concentrated in the sands of the
Columbia River near its mouth and adjacent bays
Other possible products of
the sands include titanium, zirconium, glass, and abrasives
Two deposits of
sand on the south bank of the Columbia River near Hammond are high in magnetite concentrates containing about 40 percent magnetite
Deposits of sand and gravel, and rocks suitable for crushed aggregate
and large jetty blocks are found at many places in the county
Deposits
of clay suitable for pottery and drain tile are located near Seaside
Oil and gas exploration has been carried on periodically since 1910.
These wells range in depth from 85 to 7,100 feet, the deepest near Seaside
To date, no oil and very little gas has been found.
Wildlife
Big game species of the county include black-tailed deer and Roosevelt
elk, with a few white-tailed deer occurring in the bottom lands along the
lower Columbia River.
Table 21.
Big Game Animal Population Trends, Clatsop County
Game
Management Unit
Miles
Traveled
Animals
Observed
1971
1971
Animals Per Mile
1970
5 yr. average*
I
Roosevelt elk
Clatsop-N. Coast..
24
535
22.3
17.5
17.0
Black-tailed deer
Clatsop-N. Coast..
83
172
2.1
1.5
2.0
*5 year average - 1966-1970.
SOURCE
Oregon State Game Commission, 1971 Annual Report, Oregon State Game
Commission
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Ring-necked pheasant, valley and mountain quail, blue and ruf fed grouse,
fantail pigeons, mourning doves, and brush rabbits represent the small game
species of the county. Waterfowl species are found in Clatsop County with
feeding, resting, and wintering concentrations occurring in the lower Columbia
River and Youngs Bay
Adjoining farm lands also hold substantial waterfowl
populations at various times
Furbearers of economic importance are mink, beaver, and muskrat.
Anadromous fish species in the county include spring and fall chinook,
silver, blueback, and chum salmon, steelhead, cutthroat and brown trout, and
Columbia River smelt, shad, and white and green sturgeon. Resident fish
include cutthroat, rainbow, brown, and eastern brook trout, and largemouth
bass, yellow perch, bullhead catfish, black and white crappie, bluegill, and
pumpkins eed sunfish.
Shellfish of many varieties are also found in Clatsop County.
- 20 -
HUMAN RESOURCES
Population
Clatsop was among the earliest settled regions in Oregon.
The first
white settlement in Oregon was a fur trading post established in 1911 at the
present site of Astoria
Population growth was slow until 1870 when a large
increase was experienced in Clatsop County due to expansion of the salmon
canning and timber industries
The county population dropped between 1920
and 1930, due to the 1922 Astoria fire. A relatively high growth rate was
experienced between 1930 and 1950 as a consequence of expansion in the fish
processing and forest production industries, agriculture, tourist trade,
ship building, and military installations
The population dropped during
the 1960's due to reduced fishing, logging, and military activities
Astoria is the largest city in Clatsop County with a 1972 population of
10,500, followed by Seaside with 4,465 and Warrenton with 1,875.
Table 22.
Number of Persons by Racial Group, Clatsop County, 1970
Racial Group
Number of Persons
Total
Caucasian
Spanish Language
Black
28,473
27,089
427
551
American Indian
Other
SOURCE:
Valde, GaryR. and Robert 0. Coppedge, Income and Poverty Data for
Racial Groups: A Compilation for Oregon Census County Divisions,
Special Report 367, Oregon State University Extension Service,
Corvallis, Oregon, 1972.
Table 23.
Clatsop and BorderIng Counties, Population and Rank Order
in Oregon, 1960 and 1970
Count y
CLATSOP
Columbia
Washington
Tillamook
SOURCE:
124
282
Rank
I
1960
Population
27,380
22,379
92,237
18,955
15
20
5
22
Rank
18
17
4
23
I
1970
Population
28,473
28,790
157,920
17,930
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population: 1960 and 1970
General Population Characteristics, Final Report PC(1) - B39, Oregon,
U.S. Goverruneüt Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1961, 1971.
- 21 -
Table 24.
Land Area and Population Density, Clatsop and Bordering
Counties, 1950, 1960, and 1970.
County and State
State of Oregon
CLATSOP
Columbia
Washington
Tillamook
SOURCE
Year
SOURCE
I
- square miles
96,248
843
676
716
1,115
Population Density
1950
1960
I
1970
- persons per sq. mile 15.8
37.5
35.6
85.6
16.7
18.4
33.4
34.6
128.8
17.0
21.7
33.7
44.6
220.5
16.1
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of Population
1950, 1960, and
1970 General Population Characteristics, Final Report PC(l) - B39,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1951, 1961, 1971.
Table 25.
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1965
1970
1972
Land Area
,
Population Growth, Clatsop County
Po ulation
16,106
23,030
21,124
24,697
30,776
27,380
27,700
28,473
28,800
Percent Increase or Decrease
Period
Percent
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1965
1965-1970
1970-1972
29 1
(
9 3)
14 5
19 8
(12 1)
1 2
2 8
1 2
Center for Population Research and Census, Population Estimates of
Counties and Incorporated Cities of Oregon, Portland State University,
various editions
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of Population
General Population
Characteristics, Final Report PC(l) - B39, Oregon, U S Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C., various editions.
- 22 -
Table 26.
Components of Change in Clatsop County'
Year
Net Change
1940-1950
6,097
-3,396
1,093
1950-19 60
1960-1970
SOURCES:
Natural
Increase
Net
igration
3,246
3,794
4,008
2,833
-7,190
662
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population, General Demographic
Trends for Metropolitan Areas, 1960 to 1970, Final Report PHC (2) 39, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1971.
Oregon State Board of Census, Components of Population Growth,
Population Bulletin P-3, 1961.
Table 27.
Year
Urban and Rural Population, Clatsop County
Population
Urban
Percent Change
Population
Rural
Percent Change
16,217
15,116
14,646
-6.8
-3.1
14,559
12,264
13,827
-15.8
12.7
1950
1960
1970
SOURCE:
Population, 1940-1970
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population, 1960 and 1970
General Population Characteristics, Final Report PC(l) - B39,
Oregon, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1961,
1971.
Table 28.
Population Estimates of Incorporated Cities, Clatsop County,
1960, 1965, 1971, and 1972
City and County
Clatsop County
Astoria
Cannon Beach
Gearhart
Hammond
Seaside
Warrenton
Incorporated area
Unincorporated area
SOURCE:
1960
1965
1971
1972
27,380
11,239
495
27,700
10,500
520
730
563
4,000
1,800
18,113
9,587
28,770
10,400
790
850
520
4,425
1,850
18,835
9,935
28,800
10,500
790
850
520
4,465
1,875
19,000
9,800
725
480
3,877
1,717
1,533
8,847
Center for Population Research and Census, Population Estimates of
Counties and Incorporated Cities of Oregon, Portland State University,
July 1972.
Table 29.
Population by Age and Sex, Clatsop County, 1960 and 1970
Male
1960 I 1970
Age Group
Female
1960 I 1970
Total population.
Under
5....
5-9....
10-14....
13,881
1,302
1,306
1,312
15-19.
20-24....
25-34....
35-44....
45-54....
55-64....
65 and over.
916
749
1,434
1,751
1,778
1,480
1,853
1,186
1,352
1,276
896
1,407
1,352
1,698
1,663
1,885
Median age.......
34.5
33.2
SOURCE
13,684
969
13,449
1,255
1,291
1,168
14,789
Total
1960 I 1970
1,348
1,784
1,865
1,436
1,826
1,142
1,280
1,713
1,012
1,473
1,373
1,832
1,826
2,191
27,380
2,557
2,597
2,480
1,813
1,378
2,782
3,535
3,643
2,916
3,679
28,473
1,916
2,328
2,632
2,989
1,908
2,880
2,725
3,530
3,489
4,076
35.9
33.7
35.2
33.5
897
629
947
Percent
1960 I 1970
100.00 100.00
9.33
6.72
9.48
8.17
9.05
9.24
6.62 10.53
5.03
6.70
10.16 10.11
12.91
9.57
13.30 12.39
10.65 12.25
14.88 14.31
U S
Bureau of the Census, Census of Population
1960 and 1970 General
Population Characteristics, Final Report PC(l) - B39, Oregon, U S
Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1961, 1971.
Table 30
Population of Selected Cities by Age and Sex, Clatsop County,
1960 and 1970
Age Grou p
Under
5
5-14
15-24
25-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65 and over
Total population
Male
Female
Astoria
1960
1970
I
1,092
1,966
1,291
1,187
1,480
1,489
1,180
1,554
743
1,760
1,642
1,035
1,008
1,278
1,237
1,541
11,239
NA
NA
10,244
4,965
5,279
Seaside
1960
1970
I
263
621
602
408
333
535
612
1,028
'V
'I
4,402
2,029
2,373
*NA - not available.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census
of Population, 1960 and 1970
General Population Characteristics, Final Report PC(1) - B39,
Oregon, U S Government Printing Office, Washington, D C
,
1961,
1971.
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Employment
Clatsop County had a total labor force of 12,670 in 1971. This represents 44 percent of the total population
Eight percent of the labor force
was unemployed in 1971
This is an increase of 2 4 during the years 19681971 or a 44 percent increase over the 1968 figure of 5 4 for unemployment
However, the actual number of people employed has steadily increased over
the same three year period.
Two-thirds of the county's labor force are employed in non-agricultural
industries
There is little, if any, employment in agriculture that is seasonal and requires the use of migratory workers
The following tables give
further information on employment in Clatsop County.
Table 31.
Employment Status, Clatsop County and Astoria, 1960 and 1970
Subj ect
Total males, 14 years and over
Total labor force
Armed forces
Civilian labor force
Employed
Unemployed
Not in labor force
Inmate of institution
Enrolled in school
Other
Total females, 14 years and over
Total labor force
Employed
Unemployed
Not in labor force
Inmate of institution
Enrolled in school
Other
Married (husbands present) in
labor force
Clatsop County
1960
19701/
I
10,192
7,829
964
6,865
6,466
399
2,363
61.
641
1,661
9,971
3,292
3,094
190
6,679
9,767
7,136
316
6,820
6,249
571
2,631
75
438
2,118
Astoria
1960
197QY
1
4,164
3,190
511
2,679
2,503
176
974
46
237
691
4,166
1,480
1,413
5,866
11,134
4,517
4,265
252
6,617
139
500
5,978
2,068
2,859
79
734
3,553
2,600
132
2,468
2,259
209
953
43
169
484
2,686
3,936
1,786
1,682
104
2,150
48
294
2,344
160
2,188
888
1,037
67
58
16 years and over.
SOURCE
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of Population
1960 and 1970
General Social and Economic Characteristics, Final Report PC(l) C39, Oregon, U S Government Printing Office, Washington, D C
1962, 1972.
1/
Table 32.
Industry Group of Employed, Clatsop County, 1960 and 1970
Number Employed
1960
1970
Indus tr
Agriculture
Forestry and fisheries
Mining
Construction
Manufacturing
Lumber and wood products
Food and kindred products
Other
Transportation
Communications
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
Business services
Personal services
Hospitals and medical services
Educational services
Professional and related services
Public
Utilities and sanitary services
Entertainment and recreational services
Other industry and armed forces
Finance, real estate, insurance
424
361
16
435
2,786
1,344
557
7
718
2,651
848
1,021
782
446
129
217
1,164
278
438
108
149
1,553
180
526
1,075
NA*
NA
1,770
309
611
669
1,160
244
440
104
103
173 1/
206
administration.....................
733
78
116
1,266
288
*NA - not available.
1/ Armed forces not included.
SOURCE
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of Population
1960 and 1970
General Social and Economic Characteristics, Final Report PC(l) C39, Oregon, U S Government Printing Office, Washington, D C
1962, 1972.
Table 33.
Percent of Age Group in Labor Force, Clatsop County
and Astoria, 1970
e Grou'
Years
14-15
16-17
18-19
20-21
22-24
25-34
35-44
45-64
65 and over
SOURCE:
Clatsop County
Male
Female
I
Astoria
Male
Female
15 2
37 9
78 9
81 2
94 6
95 7
94 4
84.2
22.7
30 8
54 3
42 9
43 8
63 3
83 1
93 3
81.8
15.7
10 8
27 7
28 8
39 9
42 6
46 5
55 7
54.5
11.8
8 3
22 1
45 2
45 0
59 5
49 7
40 7
43.9
5.3
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population: 1970 General
Social and Economic Characteristics, Final Report PC(l) - C39,
Oregon, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972.
- 26 -
Table 34.
Clatsop County Occupations, 1970
Occupation
Total employed, 16 years and over.
Professional, technical, and
kindred workers
Engineers
Physicians and related
practitioners
Other health workers
Teachers
Technicians, except health
Other professional workers
Managers and administrators
Sales workers
Clerical and kindred workers
Craftsmen and kindred workers
Operative except transport
Transport
Laborers except farm
Farmers and farm managers
Farm laborers
Service workers
Cleaning service
Food service
Health service
Personal service
Protective service
P'ivate household
SOURCE:
Number Employed
Female
Total
6,249
4,265
10,514
703
57
663
1,366
Male
57
70
70
144
137
38
257
904
230
243
1,239
792
401
175
394
31
257
38
375
298
262
1,146
52
611
28
42
1,021
94
8
60
557
230
108
20
5
1,025
133
555
205
35
74
134
3
5
110
632
1,202
492
1,389
1,291
1,403
429
1,063
102
80
1,582
363
663
210
109
137
115
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population: 1970 General
Social and Economic Characteristics, Final Report PC(1) - C39,
Oregon, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972.
Table 35.
Number of Hired Seasonal Workers in Agriculture by Type of Worker,
Clatsop County, 1965 and 1971, Midmonth Figures
Month
Intrastate
Migratory
Local
1965
I
1971
May
June
July
August
September
October
SOURCES:
1965
I
1971
Interstate
Migratory
1965
1971
NONE REPORTED
FOR CLATSOP COUNTY
Oregon State Department of Employment, 1965 Oregon Farm Labor
Report, 1966.
Oregon State Department of Human Resources, Employment Division,
1971 Annual Rural Manpower Report, 1972.
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Table 36.
Annual Average Labor Force in Clatsop County, 1968-1971
Indus try
1968
Civilian labor force
Workers in labor management
disputes
Unemployment
Percent of labor force
Employment
Agricultural
Nonagricultural
Self-employed, unpaid family
and domestics
Wage and salary workers
Manufacturing
Lumber and wood
Primary metal
Other durables
Food products
Paper
Other
Nonmanufacturing
Contract construction
Transportation, communication,
utilities
Wholesale and retail trade
Finance, insurance and real
estate
Service and miscellaneous
Government
SOURCE:
11,970
Number of Persons
1969
1970
I
1971
12,130
12,350
12,670
40
990
7.8
11,640
560
0
0
650
5.4
11,320
550
10,770
660
5.4
10
770
6.2
11,470
550
10,920
11,570
550
11,020
11,080
1,490
9,280
3,080
1,080
1,470
9,450
3,190
1,030
1,480
9,540
3,200
980
1,480
9,600
3,250
1,020
--
--
--
120
1,370
1,240
1,310
--
1,360
-860
760
6,200
420
850
6,260
340
6,340
350
740
-6,350
320
560
1,780
560
1,810
560
1,770
470
1,860
250
1,420
1,770
280
1,410
1,860
280
1,430
1,950
250
1,420
2,030
Oregon State Department of Human Resources, Employment Division,
Labor Force and Employment in Oregon by County 1968 through 1971
publications, Research and Statistics Section, 1969, 1972.
- 28 -
Table 37.
Median Earnings of Selected Occupation Groups, Clatsop County,
1959 and 1969
Occupation Group
Male, total with earnings
Professional, managerial, and kindred
workers
Farmers and farm managers
Craftsmen, foremen, and kindred workers
Operatives and kindred workers
Farm laborers
Laborers, excluding farm and mine
...............
Female, total with earnings
Clerical and kindred workers
Operatives and kindred workers
SOURCE:
....
1959
1969
$4,885
$7,860
5,671
4,366
9,064
3,750
8,616
7,976
3,938
6,912
$2,102
3,044
2,107
$2,836
3,122
2,756
5,532
4,853
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population: 1960 and 1970
General Social and Economic Characteristics, Final Report PC(l)
C39, Oregon, U S Government Printing Office, Washington, D C
1962, 1972.
Table 38.
-
Covered Payrolls and Employment by Industry, Clatsop County,
1970 and 1971
Avera:e Emilo
Indus tr
1970
Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
Mining
Conract construction
Lumer and wood products manufacturing
Food and kindred products manufacturing
Other manufacturing
Transportation, communication, electric,
gas, and sanitary services
Wholesale and retail trade
Finance, insurance and real estate
Services and miscellaneous
Government
Yearly total
1971
ent Annual Pa roll
1971
14
17
*
*
$
67,412
*
297
35O4,867
1,019
1,378
859
9 241,134
8,381,617
9,006,598
1,059
555
462
1,851
209
1,060
582
4,475,587
8,264,310
1,204,675
3,692,285
3,954,804
7,743
7,759
$53,885,335
348
980
1,389
861
530
1,771
216
*unpublished data.
SOURCE
Oregon State Department of Human Resources, Employment Division,
Oregon Covered Employment and Payrolls, 1970 and 1971, Summary
Data, Research and Statistics Section, 1971, 1972.
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Table 39.
Number and Percent of Persons Unemployed in Clatsop and
Bordering Counties, 1968 and 1971
Number of
People
County
1968
CLATSOP
Washington
Tillamook
Columbia 1/
I
650
440
310
15,500
Percent of
Labor Force
1968
1971
I
1971
990
720
470
28,800
5.4
5.4
4.9
3.6
7.8
7.9
7.2
6.1
1/
Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington Counties in Oregon and Clark County,
Washington are included in this figure which is descriptive of unemployment in the Portland area.
SOURCE
Oregon State Department of Human Resources, Employment Division,
Labor Force and Employment in Oregon by County 1968 and 1971
publications, Research and Statistics Section, 1969, 1972.
Table 40.
Major Occupation Group of Unemployed, Clatsop County,
1960 and 1970
Number of Persons
1960
1970
I
Occupation Group
Professional, technical, and kindred workers.
Farmers and farm managers
Managers, officials and proprietors,
excluding farm
Clerical and kindred workers
Sales workers
Craftsmen, foremen, and kindred workers
Operatives and kindred workers
Service workers, including private
household
Farm laborers
Laborers, excluding farm and mine
SOURCE:
14
49
8
49
11
87
111
96
19
137
94
26
225
185
125
7
76
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population: 1960 and1970
General Social and Economic Characteristics, Final Report PC(l) C39, Oregon, U .S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.,
1962, 1972.
- 30 -
Table 41.
Local Government Employees and Payroll, Clatsop County,
October 1967
Item
Employees
Full-time
..
only..........................
Full-time equivalent employment
Education
Teachers only
Functions other than education
Highways
Public welfare
Hospitals
Health
Police protection
Fire protection
Sewerage
Sanitation other than sewerage
Parks and recreation
Natural resources
Housing and urban renewal
Correction
Libraries
Financial administration
General control
Water supply
Other local utilities
Other and unallocable
October payroll
Education
Teachers only
Functions other than education
Average monthly earnings, full-time
employment
Taachers
Others
SOURCE:
Employees and Earnings
1,131
836
897
514
349
383
36
1
55
9
42
22
5
11
10
9
58
26
24
75
$495,000
303,000
231,000
192,000
$661
484
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Governments, 1967, Vol. 3,
No 2, Compendium of Public Employment, U S Government Printing
Office, Washington, D.C., 1969.
Income
Table 42.
Net Effective Buying Income Estimates, Clatsop County,
1967 and 1970
Net Dollars
Area
1967
1970
I
- thousand dollars Oregon
Clatsop County
SOURCE
$5,224,888
64,875
$6,650,690
83,023
Per Household
1967
1970
I
-
dollars -
$8,113
7,052
$9,440
7,983
Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Oregon Economic Statistics
1969 and 1972, University of Oregon, 1972.
Table 43.
Year
Bank Debits and Deposits
Clatsop County, 1965-1971
Bank Debits 1/
Bank Deposits
- thousand dollars - - 1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
$272,664
230,045
325,672
363,132
390, 273
386,696
$49,155
53,649
56,311
61,658
63,935
65,432
437 ,109
1/
Bank debits represent the dollar value of checks drawn against deposit
accounts of individuals and businesses
Included are debits to demand
deposit accounts of individuals, business firms, and state and other
political subdivisions, and payments from escrow or trust accounts
Excluded are debits to U S Government, interbank, time and savings
accounts, and several other categories
SOURCE
Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Oregon Economic Statistics
1969 and 1972, University of Oregon, 1972.
- 32 -
Table 44.
Income and Poverty Data for Racial Groups, Clatsop County, 1970
Item
Number
Mean Income
Families:
All races
Caucasian
Spanish Language
Black
Other
Unrelated individuals:
All races
Caucasian
Spanish Language
Black
Other
Percent
$10,335
10,317
15,409
14,624
6,297
$ 3,047
3,393
2,162
614
3,291
Families by Family Income Class
All races:
under $3,999
$4,000-$5,999
$6,000-$ll,999
$12,000+
total
Caucasian:
under $3,999
$4000-$5,999
$6,000-$ll,999
$12,000+
total
Spanish Language:
under $3,999
$4,000-$5,999
$6,000-$11,999
1,206
835
3,119
2,365
7,525
16 03
11 09
41 45
31 43
100.00
1,177
800
3,067
2,331
7,375
17 38
10.63
42 70
29 29
100 00
22
35.49
46 77
17.74
29
$12,000-i-............................11
total
Black:
62
100.00
10
11
41.62
52 38
100.00
under $3,999
$4 ,000-$5 ,999
$6,000-$1i,999
$12,000+
total
Other:
under $3,999
$4,000-$5,999
$6,000-$ll,999
$12,000+
total
21
29
13
13
12
67
- 33 -
13
11
39
35
100
66
77
25
32
00
Table 44, cont.
Income and Poverty Data for Racial Groups,
Clatsop County, 1970
Income
Income below poverty level (bpl)
Families bpl
All races
Caucasian
Spanish Language
Black
Other
Persons in families bpl
Unrelated individuals bpl
Under 65
65 and over
Male family head, 14-64 yrs., bpl
Employed
Unemployed.........................
Not in labor force
Female family heads bpl in labor
force with children below 6 yrs
Income source of families and
unrelated individuals bpl
Earnings
Social security or railroad
retirement
Public assistance or welfare
Number
Percent
646
625
100 00
96 75
21
3.25
2,060
1,056
698
157
39
66
70
1,145
975
269
Blank spaces indicate a zero, suppressed data, or not applicable.
SOURCE: Valde, Gary R. and Robert 0 Coppedge, Income and Poverty Data for
Racial Groups: A Compilation for Oregon Census County Divisions,
Special Report 367, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 1972.
Education
Table 45.
Formal Education FacIlities, Clatsop County, 1968-69 and 1971
School District, Type School,
and Number of Each T 'e
Astoria School District #1
Elementary - 3
Junior high - 1
High school -
Enrollment-i"
1968-69
1971
1,111
717
746
1,088
596
564
64
34
41
1...................
Jewell School District #8
Elementary - 1
High school - 1
Lewis and Clark School District #5
Elementary - 1
Olney School District #11
Elementary - 1
....................406
Seaside School District #10
Elementary - 4
High school - 1
988
523
977
488
Warrenton School District #30
Elementary - 1
Junior high - 1
High school - 1
291
108
213
328
120
190
.....................2,917
...................825
1,516
5,258
10
384
63
County total
Elementary - 6
Junior high - 2
High school - 4
County grand total - 12
233
67
57
......................
High School
Graduates 1971
2,907
716
1,283
4,906
113
408
408
Average daily membership.
SOURCE
Oregon Board of Higher Education, School Finance and Statistical
Services, 1971-72 Oregon School-Community College Directory, 1971
Oregon Public High School Graduates, and Summary of Pupil Personnel
for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1969
1/
Table 46.
Racial and Ethnic Distribution of Public School Enrollment
by School District, Clatsop County, 1972
District
White
Black
American
Indian
Spanish
Surname
0ther-'
Total
number of students - - -
Astoria
Jewell
Lewis and Clark
Olney
Seaside
War rent on
1/
2,272
110
388
13
4
12
60
2,361
110
---
3
15
13
15
6
1
393
55
1,405
629
55
1,362
622
Includes Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and others.
Compiled from Oregon Board of Education reports by Oregon State
University Extension Service.
SOURCE:
Table 47.
Years of School Completed by Population 25 Years and Over,
Clatsop County, 1970
Education
Number
Males
Number
Females
8,013
8,724
69
77
174
691
Total, 25 years and over
No school years completed
Elementary:
1-4 years
5-7 years
8 years
High school: 1-3 years
4 years
College:
1-3 years
4 yrs. or more
1484
1,637
2,539
900
837
144
511
1,140
1,935
3,218
1,059
640
Median school years completed
12.1
12.2
SOURCE:
Total
Percent
16,737
146
318
1,202
2,324
3,572
5,757
1,959
1,477
100.00
0.87
1.89
7.18
13.88
21.34
34.39
11.70
8.82
12.15
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population: 1970 General
Social and Economic Characteristics, Final Report PC(1) - C39,
Oregon, U S Government Printing Office, Washington, D C
1972
,
There is one institution of higher education in Clatsop County.
Clatsop
Community College was founded in 1958 and in 1965 became the first public
Oregon Community College to be accredited by the Northwest Association of
Secondary and Higher Schools. The college offers courses in the liberal arts
and sciences, career education, adult education, special education, and general
education.
Total enrollment for the 1972-73 school year was 1,718 with 51 percent
women and 49 percent men. Sixty-four percent of the students at the college
were part-time students. Four percent were from out of state.
Table 48.
Clatsop County Residents Enrolled in Higher Education
Institutions, Fall 1971
Institution
Number Enrolled
Total enrolled
Eastern Oregon College
Oregon College of Education
Oregon State University
Portland State University
Southern Oregon College
University of Oregon
Oregon Technical Institute
University of Oregon Dental School
University of Oregon Medical School
Total in private and independent
institutions
Total in public community
institutions
SOURCE:
1,833
5
74
161
79
19
131
13
2
12
60
1,337
Oregon Educational Coordinating Council, Post Secondary Enrollment
in Oregon: An Analysis of the Statewide Student Enrollment Data
Survey, 1972.
- 37 -
Table 49.
Youth Organizations, Clatsop County
Organization
Membership
Boy Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
4-H
Future Farmers
Girl Scouts
Junior Achievement
YMCA
NA*
18,000
..............
825
70
287
I
2/
2,927
*NA - not available
1/
This figure includes Clatsop, Multnomah, and Washington Counties
2/
No chapter in county
SOURCES: Unpublished data compiled by Columbia River Girl Scout Council,
1972 State Department of Education and State Extension Office,
4-H Division, 1972, telephone interview with Regional Office
Camp Fire Girls, Portland, Oregon, July 1973, letter received
July 1973 from Gurney W. Day, Executive Director, Astoria YMCA.
Although Clatsop County operates no correctional institutions of its
own, it is served by four state correctional institutions in Marion County
These include training schools for socially maladjusted boys between 12
and 18 years of age and girls between the ages of 12 and 21.
Table 50
Felonies and Juvenile Delinquency, Clatsop County, 1968
Subj ect
Number
Commitments to felony and correctional
institutions, 1967-68
Total commitments
Oregon State Penitentiary
Oregon State Correctional Institution
MacLaren (boys' training school) 1/
Hillcrest (girls' training school) 1/
Juvenile court cases, 1968
All cases
Delinquency
Traffic
Other
23
7
6
9
726
450
192
84
Oregon State Department of Human Resources, Children Services Division,
Adolescent Population and Commitment Data by County, by Calendar Year,
1967-1970.
SOURCE
Oregon State Executive Department, Program Planning Division,
District Facts, 1970.
- 38 -
Health and Vital Statistics
The following tables give information on the illnesses and health problems of Clatsop County residents and the available medical facilities for
treatment. As a whole, the county has about the same medical personnel ratio
as the rest of the state, excluding Multnomah County.
The county health department budget was $124,421 for the 1969-70 year
which is a per capita expenditure of $3.34, compared to a state average of
$5.65.
Because the Columbia-Memorial Hospital in Astoria does not meet federal
standards, plans are underway for construction of a new hospital at a different location. The proposed hospital would provide 81 acute care beds and
40 long-term care beds. No federally conforming outpatient facilities or
mental health facilities exist in the county at the present time.
Table 51.
Existing Medical Facilities, Number of Existing Beds, and
Number of Beds Needed, Clatsop County, 1971 1/
Category
Communi t
Number of Facilities Number of Beds
Needed
Existin
Existin:
Needed
General hospitals
Astoria
Seaside 2/
2
1
2
87
87
1
25uc
25uc
Long-term care facilities
Astoria
Seaside
2
2
2
2
Diagnostic and treatment centers
Astoria
Seaside
2
2
108
128
158
128
Mental facilities:
the state plan of the Mental Health Division is made
a part of this plan by reference.
Tuberculosis hospitals: none.
Rehabilitation facilities: no facilities are programmed beyong the services in area hospitals.
2/
Seaside Hospital was being replaced at the time the report was written.
The replacement was completed September 1970. "uc" indicates "under
construction".
SOURCE:
Oregon State Board of Health, Oregon Plan for Construction and
Modernization of Hospitals, Public Health Centers and Medical
Facilities, 1971 Annual Revision, Health Facility Planning and
Construction Section, 1971.
1/
- 39 -
'l'able 52.
Diagnostic or Treatment Center Faci1ities,!J 1970
Outpatient Visits
During Year
Name and Location
Columbia Hospital, Astoria
St. Marys Hospital, Astoria
Seaside Hospital, Seaside
1/
2,381
1,009
1,195
According to the 1971 revision of the State Plan for Construction and
Modernization of Hospitals, a diagnostic or treatment center "takes
outpatients, has facilities for examination of patients by physician or
dentist, or has diagnostic x-ray and clinical laboratory services avail-
able".
SOURCE:
Oregon State Board of Health, Oregon Plan for Construction and
Modernization of Hospitals, Public Health Centers and Medical
Facilities, 1971 Annual Revision, Health Facility Planning and
Construction Section, 1971.
Table 53.
Percent Occupancy of Existing Medical Facilities,
Clatsop County, 1970
Name of Faciljt y
Location
General Hospitals
Columbia Hospital
Columbia-Memorial 1/
Seaside Hospital
Long-term Care Facilities
Columbia Hospital LTC
Seaside Hospital LTC
Crestview Convalescent and
Nursing Sanitorium
Ocean Air Nursing Home
Seaside Convalescent Center
Total
Capacity
Percent of
Occupancy
Astoria
Astoria
Seaside
31
53
28
Astoria
Astoria
20
30
116
10
Astoria
Seaside
Seaside
82
20
98
92
99
82
1/
formerly St Marys Hospital
SOURCE
Meyers, Joseph D , Richard T Leonard, and Oscar K Granger, A Plan
for Land and Water Use, Clatsop County, Oregon, Phase I, Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill, Architects and Planners, Portland, Oregon, 1973
- 40 -
Table 54.
Number of Licensed Medical Personnel and Ratio of Population
Per Professional, Clatsop County, 1969
Clatsop County
Number
Ratio1-/
Profession
(
Medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy
Dentists
Registered nurses
Licensed practical nurses
Pharmacists
1,252
1,440
23
20
107
20
20
State
RatioY
1,126
1,819
269
367
1,440
1,440
1,324
1,395
Ratio figure equals population per professional in particular category.
State ratio excludes Multnomah County.
SOURCE:
Oregon State Executive Department, Program Planning Division,
District Facts, 1970.
1/
Table 55. Number of Admissions to State Psychiatric Hospitals and Mental
Health Clinics and Ratio per 100,000 Population, Clatsop County, 1968-69
Clatsop County
Number I Ratio
Facility
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental health clinics
SOURCE:
188
521
54
150
State
Ratio
134
460
Oregon State Executive Department, Program Planning Division)
District Facts, 1970.
Table 56.
Births and Deaths by Major Category, Clatsop County and
State of Oregon, 1968 and 1971
Category
All births 1/
All deaths 1/
Illegitimate births 2/
Premature births 2/
Inf ant deaths 2/
Accidental deaths 3/
Clatsop County
Number
Rate
1968 I 1971
1968 I 1971
398
370
31
26
10
24
385
350
28
26
4
17
14.2
13.2
77,9
65.3
25.1
85.4
13.4
12.2
72.7
67.5
10.4
59.1
State
Rate
1971
15.6
9.4
78.1
57.4
18.4
61.3
Rates per 1,000 population.
Rates per 1,000 live births
Rate per 100,000 population
SOURCE:
Oregon State Department of Human Resources, Oregon State Health
Division, Vital Statistics Annual Report, Vital Statistics Section,
1/
2/
3/
1971.
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Table 57.
Health Statistics, Clatsop County, 1970
Clatsop County
Number
Rat iol/
Item
Morbidity
Tuberculosis
Syphilis
Gonorrhea
Influenza
Hepatitis (infectious) 2/
Measles (Rubella)
7.0
3
10.4
1,480.7
426
1
7
Deaths from all causes
Malignant neoplasms (cancer)
Diabetes mellitus
Heart diseases
Cerebrovascular diseases
350
64
3
144
53
10
Art e r ios c ler os is
Other cardiovascular diseases
Influenza and pneumonia
Bronchitis, emphysema, asthma
Peptic ulcer
Cirrhosis of liver
Congenital anomalies
Certain infancy mortality causes.
All other diseases
Accidents
Suicide
Homicides
1/
2/
2
5
7
7
3
10
1
1
21
17
4
3.5
25.1
12.2
222.5
10.4
500.5
184.2
34.8
17.4
24.3
24.3
10.4
34.8
3.5
3.5
73.0
59.1
13.9
State
Rat
jo'1
11.6
5.3
422.0
1,171.7
45.1
18.1
9.4 3/
168.4
13.3
349.6
110.9
21.2
17.3
26.4
26.9
4.3
15.8
8.2
14.7
76.9
61.3
14.9
3.8
Rate per 100,000 population.
1966-68 average from Office of the Governor, Planning Division, Health
Facts, 1969.
Rate per 1,000 population.
SOURCE
Oregon State Department of Human Resources, Oregon State Health
Division, Vital Statistics nnual Report, Vital Statistics Section,
3/
1971.
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Public Welfare
Table 58.
Public Welfare Payments for Assistance, Clatsop County,
August 1972
Category
Number of Cases
Average Payments
100
11
$ 58.21
135.55
81.31
50.63
67.62
NA
Cases receiving non-medical services
OldAge Assistance
Aid to the Blind
Aid to the Disabled
Aid to Dependent Children
General Assistance
Foster Care
93
246 1/
22
NA*
Physicians services 1/
OAA
23
FC
4
$ 42.49
8.13
58.30
22.87
25.66
41.40
Hospital payments 1/
OAA
AB
4
$102.51
4
882.20
424.87
238.90
389.14
AB
AD
2
34
ADC
GA
128
13
AD
17
AD C
GA
3
rc
1
Drug payments 1/
OAA
AB
104
6
AD
55
81
AD C
GA
FC
9
4
$ 22.85
11.34
27,57
9.66
13.24
2,64
*NA - not available.
1/ Persons, not cases.
SOURCE:
Oregon State Department of Human Resources, Oregon Public Welfare
Division, Public Welfare in Oregon, August 1972
The State of Oregon operates three special schools for the handicapped,
all located at Salem in Marion County
The School for the Blind provides
special education for approximately 100 children with acute vision problems
in a boarding school situation
The School for the Deaf provides parallel
training for severely handicapped children from four years of age through
high school
Oregon Fairview Home provides In- and out-patient tr-1lnlng for
mcntally deficient minors and adults
43 -
Table 59.
Average Monthly Public Welfare Payments by Type of Service,
Clatsop County, Fiscal Years 1968-69 and 1971-72
Average Payment Per Case
1968-69
1971-72
I
Type of Service
Old Age Assistance
Aid to the Disabled
Aid to the Blind
General Assistance
Aid to Dependent Children 1/
UN 2/
Basic 2/
$ 56.86
81.35
69.87
51.87
$ 59.07
87.19
126.41
65.74
37.75
45.02
46.63
47.67
1/
2/
Payment per person, not case
The UN figure represents payments to families where
the male parent is
in the home but unemployed.
The basic figure represents all others.
SOURCE
Unpublished data received from Sondra Lipman, Oregon Public
Welfare
Division, Research and Statistics Section, May 1973.
Housing
Table 60.
Housing Occupancy and Facilities for Places with Over 2,500
Inhabitants, Clatsop County, 1970
Seaside
Number I Percent
Astoria
Number
Percent
Occupancy
All year-round housing units
Owner occupied
Renter occupied
Vacant year-round.
2,575
1,119
4,276
2,283
1,621
197
100.00
53.39
37.90
4.60
Facilities
Telephone available
Air conditioning
1,572
NA
40
.93
Subj ect
767
NA*
44
Median gross rent of renter
occupied 1/
$93
100.00
43.47
29.78
--
84.97
1.70
$84
*NA - not available.
Excludes one-family homes on 10 acres or more
SOURCE
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of Housing
1970 Detailed Housing
Characteristics, Final Report HC(1) - B39, Oregon, U S Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972.
1/
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Table 61.
Housing Occupancy and Facilities, Clatsop County, 1970
Subject
Occupancy
All housing units
Vacant-seasonal or migratory
Owner occupied
Renter occupied
Vacant year-round
Population in housing units
per unit
Owner occupied
Renter occupied
Persons per room
All occupied units
1.00 or less
1.01 to 1.50
1.51 or more
Facilities
Lacking some or all plumbing
facilities
Telephone available
Air conditioning
Clatsop County
Number Units
Percent
292
100.00
2.33
6,821
3,384
2,005
54.55
27.06
16,03
12,502
100.0
1.3
61.3
31.5
5.9
2.7
2.6
10,205
9,828
100.00
96.30
283
2.77
0.92
100.0
94.7
4.2
1.1
3.50
89.75
1.30
3.6
89.5
10.3
94
438
9,159
232
- number -
Median number of rooms
Median value 1/
Median gross rent 2/
State
Percent
4.9
$12,800
$89
number 4.0
$11,300
$107
Specif led owner occupied. Limited to one-family homes on less than 10
acres and no business on property.
Excludes one-family homes on 10 acres or
Specified renter occupied.
2/
more.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Housing: 1970 Detailed Housing
1/
Characteristics, Final Report HC(l) - B39, Oregon, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972.
THE COUNTY'S ECONOMY
Clatsop County's economy is based primarily on its resources of timber
and food products. The importance of the timber and food
processing industries
to the economy of the county is pointed out by the fact that of 7,734
covered
employees listed by the Oregon State Department of Employment for Clatsop
County in 1971, 3,256 were employed in some form of manufacturing
Of this
total, 1,378 were employed in manufacturing of food and kindred products
and
1,019 in lumber and wood products
Of other categories, only wholesale and
retail trade with 1,851 employees had more than 1,000 persons in covered
employment.
Wood processing plants include production of lumber, shakes, plywood,
boxes, veneer, and poles and piling with the major concentration in the Astoria
area
Major food processing plants are also in this area, with concentration
mainly on fish and fish products.
The emphasis in recent years has been on
ocean fish rather than Columbia River salmon.
Shipping is also amajor industry with products from the two major
irdustries the main basis for its value
Recreation is rapidly growing as
an economic activity and asset
Minor industries include agriculture and
mining.
Agriculture
Only 4 6 percent of Clatsop County
land is used for agricultural purposes.
Most of this land is located along the Columbia River and Youngs
Bay.
Clatsop County farms are
most suited for forage production for dairy
and beef, with some specialties such as mink, cranberries, Astoria
bentgrass lawn seed, and holly
Dairy farms have decreased in number, with
about 20 farms presently producing grade "A" milk
A number of small beef
herds have developed with cow-calf operations
In recent years, the small
poultry farms have given way to one large farm of 12,000 layers
producing
for direct sales to local markets, a few part-time poultry men, and one
broiler grower
Within the last five years, the mink industry has declined
due to foreign competition.
The following tables give information on farm size and value, farm
operators, and value of products sold.
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Table 62.
Farm Size and Value, Clatsop County, 1959, 1964, and 1969
Subj ect
1959
Approximate acres of land area.
Proportion in farms
Total number of
Acres in farms
1964
524,800
10.5%
farms..........
457
55,082
120.5
NA*
$23,061
245.19
Average size of farms .........
Value of land and buildings
Average per farm
Average per acre
1969
515,200
514,944
4.6%
7.7%
486
39,501
81.3
258
23,745
92.0
$10,380,634
40,235
437.17
NA
$31,931
399.34
*NA - not available.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Agriculture, 1969, Vol. 1,
Area Reports, Part 47, Oregon, U S Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C., 1972.
Table 63.
Number and Percent of Farms by Size, Clatsop County,
1959, 1964, and 1969
Size
1959
Number
1964
Less than 10 acres
10 to 49 acres
50 to 69 acres
70 to 99 acres
100 to 139 acres
140 to 179 acres
180 to 219 acres
220 to 259 acres
260 to 499 acres
500 to 999 acres
1,000 to 1,999 acres
2,000 acres or more
42
203
45
46
232
39
47
44
28
15
57
33
25
17
Total farms
SOURCE:
Per cent
1969
1959
1964
9.46
47.73
8.02
11.72
6.79
5.14
3.49
1.85
3 70
1 85
0 20
9.68
38.75
10.46
14.34
7.75
6.20
5.03
1.55
4 65
1 16
0 38
100.00
100.00
7
9
4
17
18
12
6
9
1
3
1
1
9.19
44.42
9.84
10.28
9.62
6.12
3.28
1.53
3 71
1 31
0 21
457
486
258
100.00
25
100
27
37
20
16
13
I
1969
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Agriculture, 1964 and 1969,
Vol. 1, Area Reports, Part 47, Oregon, U.S. Government Printing
Office, Washington, D.C., 1967, 1972.
- 47 -
Classification of farms by economic class considers only those
classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as "Commercial Farms".
In general, all farms with a total value of products sold
amounting to
$2,500 or more are classified as commercial
Farms with sales of $50 to
$2,499 are classified as commercial if the farm
operator was under 65 years
of age and (1) he did not work off the farm 100
or more days during the
year and (2) the income received by the operator and members of his
family
from nonf arm sources was less than the value of all
farm products sold.
Table 64
Farms by Economic Class, Clatsop County, 1959, 1964, and
1969
Economic Class
Commercial farms
Class I (sales of $40,000
or more)
Class II (sales of $20,000
to $39,999)
Class III (sales of $10,000
to $19,999)
Class IV (sales of $5,000
to $9,999)
Class V (sales of $2,500
to $4,999)
Class VI (sales of $50
to $2,499)
1959
Number
1964
162
208
115
34.2
42.8
44.6
7
19
15
1.5
3.9
5.8
10
26
17
2.1
5.3
6.6
50
30
19
10.6
6.2
7.4
35
32
23
74
66
89
35
47
24
74
97
93
I
1969
1959
f
Percent
1964
1969
25
54
17
5.3
11.1
6.6
Other farms
Part-time
Part-retirement
Abnormal
225
81
201
100
5
77
--
42
I
47.6
17.1
1.1
41.4
15.8
--
38.8
16.3
0.4
Total farms
473
486
258
100.0
100.0
100.0
SOURCE:
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Agriculture, 1964
and 1969,
Vol 1, Area Reports, Part 47,
Oregon, U S Government Printing
Office, Washington, D.C., 1967, 1972.
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Table 65.
Farm Operators by Tenure, Clatsop County, 1959, 1964, and 1969
Tenure
1959
1964
1969
Full owners
Part owners
Managers
Tenants
386
53
397
73
208
2
1
16
15
Total operators
457
486
SOURCE:
37
258
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Agriculture, 1964 and 1969,
Vol. 1, Area Reports, Part 47, Oregon, U.S. Government Printing
Office, Washington, D.C., 1967, 1972.
Table 66.
Farm Operators by Age and Years of School Completed,
Clatsop County, 1959, 1964, and 1969
Sub ect
1959
Average age (years)
Farm operators 65 years and over
Years of school completed:
Elementary:
0-4 years.........
5-7 years ..........
8 years ............
High school: 1-3 years
4 years
College:
1-3 years
4 years or more....
I
1964
I
1969
52.5
52.1
52.8
99
95
55
NA*
8
31
141
76
154
46
30
*NA - not available.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Agriculture, 1964 and 1969,
Vol 1, Area Reports, Part 47, Oregon, U S Government Prirtng
Office, Washington, D.C., 1967, 1972.
Table 67.
Acres of Crops Harvested, Clatsop County, 1969 and 1970
Crops Harvested
Hay crops
Field seed crops
Bentgrass
Berries
Cranberries
1969
1970p
5,450
120
120
5,250
140
140
45
45
40
40
p - preliminary.
SOURCE
U S D A and Oregon State University Extension Service cooperating,
"Oregon Commodity Data Sheets", Oregon State University, 1971-72
- 49 -
Table 68.
Livestock and Poultry Numbers, Clatsop County,
1950, 1960, 1969 and 1970
Category 1
1950
1960
1969
J
All
cattle
Dairy cattle
Sheep and lambs
Hogs
Chickens
Turkeys raised
9,500
4,200
900
600
NA
NA
10,500
3,300
800
600
NA
NA
10,000
1,500
400
35Op
16,000
100
10,000
1,300
400
NA*
15,000
100
*NA - not available.
p - preliminary.
1/ Numbers as of January 1, unless otherwise indicated.
SOURCE
U S D A and Oregon State University Extension Service cooperating,
HOregon Commodity Data Sheets", Oregon State University,
1971-72.
Table 69.
Value of Farm Products Sold,' Clatsop County, 1966-70
Product
1966
1967
1968
1969
f
l97Op
-----thousand dollars
All crops, livestock and
livestock products
All crops
All grain, hay and seeds
All seed crops
All grain and hay
All hay
All grains
Wheat
Barley
Vegetables, fresh and for
processing
All berries
Strawberries
All tree fruits and nuts
Specialty field crops
Specialty horticultural crops
Potatoes
All livestock and livestock
products
Dairy products
Poultry products
Cattle and calves
Sheep and lambs
3,734
2,844
2,985
2,289
2,096
203
50
239
47
197
36
240
223
51
17
34
34
--
7
7
4
4
43
43
40
32
32
30
30
8
57
8
9
50
66
41
2
1
2
2
2
--
--
--
28
2,000
32
37
38
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,788
2,049
715
98
597
667
1,873
614
10
53
2
-34
1,500
3,531
757
133
578
Hogs
1/
34
39
1
8
2,605
756
114
531
97
95
606
574
10
11
8
7
8
9
18
18
13
11
Crop year includes quantities sold or held for sale.
p - preliminary.
SOURCE:
U.S.D.A. and Oregon State University Extension Service cooperating,
"Oregon Commodity Data Sheets", Oregon State University, 1971-72.
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Table 70.
Food and Kindred Products Manufacturing, Clatsop County,
1968 and 1970
Number of Firms
1969
1970
I
Product Group
Meat packing plants
Fluid milk
Canned and cured fish and seafood..
Fresh or frozen packaged fish
and seafood
Prepared feed for animals and fowl
Bread and other bakery products
Candy and other confectionary
products
1
1
NR*
1
1
36
9
9
801 1/
810
4
3
190
160
2
1
1
Bottled and canned soft drinks.......
Total
Employment
1968
1970
22
21
3
22
55
66
13
13
5
15
14
15
1,115
1,103
*NR - not reported.
1/ One company did not report number of employees in 1968.
SOURCE: Oregon State Department of Commerce, Economic Development Division,
Directory of Oregon Manufacturers - 1968.
Oregon State Executive Department, Economic Development Division,
Directory of Oregon Manufacturers - 1970.
Logging and Wood Products
The importance of forest resources in Clatsop County is indicated by
the fact that approximately 93 percent of the total acres in the counly
is ii forest lands
Ninety percent of the total land area is classed as
commercial forests, which are lands available for and capable of producing
marketable timber.
Softwoods are predominant on about 80 percent of the commercial forest
lands of the county, with western hemlock the major species, followed by
Douglas fir and sitka spruce. There are minor acreages of other softwoods,
including western red cedar, Pacific silver fir, and grand fir. The principal hardwood is red alder.
Logging and sawmill operations in Clatsop County were among the earliest
in Oregon
The early operations selectively cut only the large, high-grade
timber fronting on the Columbia River. Beginning about 1910, logging railroads began opening up practically all portions of the county. By the 1920's,
log production had increased to the extent that Clatsop County ranked first
in the state.
Annual log and lumber production of the county has varied appreciably
over the years
Peak production in Clatsop County was reached in 1926 with
572 million board feet.
Log production in Clatsop County dropped sharply
- 51 -
in the early l930's but rose again, almost reaching the previous high
late
in the dccadc
Starting In 1942, log production declined until it reached
Its minimum of 132 million board feet in 1954
Since then, it has shown a
gradual increase, producing 303 million board feet in 1970.
Clatsop County's lumber production followed the same pattern as that
for logs until 1945, when importing of logs caused lumber to increase
over
log production for a number of years.
Table 71.
Lumber and Wood Products Manufacturing Excluding Furniture,
Clatsop County, 1968 and 1970
Number of Firms
1968
1970
I
Product Group
Logging camps and logging
contractors
Sawmills and planing mills, general
Special product sawmills
Veneer and plywood
Nailed and lock corner wooden
boxes and shook
Wood preserving
Wood products, not classified
elsewhere
Total
23
26
5
3
2
1
1
Employment
1968
1970
1
1
551 1/
138
624 1/
172
20
235
210
6
8
8
53
53
NR*
34
34
1,005
1,073
*NR - not reported.
1/
Four firms did not report number of employees in 1968, and three firms
did not report number of employees in 1970
SOURCE
Oregon State Department of Commerce, Economic Development Division,
Directory of Oregon Manufacturers - 1968
Oregon State Executive Department, Economic Development Division,
Directory of Oregon Manufacturers - 1970.
Table 72
Installed 8-Hour Capacity of Wood-Using Industries,
Ciatsop County, 1968
Industry
Capacity
Sawmill - lumber
Veneer and plywood
Pulp and board mills
210 1/
100 /
3/
1/
Scribner log rule, board feet.
2/
Square feet, 3/8 inch basis.
24 hour capacity in tons.
SOURCE: Manock, Eugene R., Grover A. Choate, and Donald R. Gedney, Oregon
Timber Industries, 1968, Wood Consumption and Mill Characteristics,
Oregon State Department of Forestry jointly with U.S. Forest Service,
Salem, Oregon, 1968.
3/
- 52 -
Table 73
Timber Harvest by Ownership, Clatsop County, 1970
Ownership
Productioi
Total timber harvest
Private 3/
Bureau of Land Management 4/
National forest 5/
State 3/
Percent of Total
303,249
281,556
100.00
92.84
21,693
7.15
Includes volume removed as logs, but not volume removed for
piling, and woodcutting operations.
2/
Scribner Log Rule - thousand board feet.
Compiled by State Forestor.
3/
4/
Compiled by Bureau of Land Management.
Compiled by U S Forest Service
5/
SOURCE: Wall, Brian R., "1970 Timber Harvest", U.S.D.A. Forest
Resource Bulletin PNW-38, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific
Forest and Range Experiment Station, Portland, Oregon,
1/
Table 74.
poles,
Service
Northwest
1971.
Log Consumption in Thousand Board Feet by Species and Industry,
Ciatsop County, 1968 1/
Species
Shake and
Shingle
Sawmil is
All species
Douglas fir
Hemlock
True firs
Spruce
Pines
Other softwoods
Hardwoods
71,297
702
63,993
1,350
2,052
155,107
131,542
12,388
3,072
4,816
3,015
-3,200
274
--
3/
Seribner log rule.
Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, and Marion Counties combined.
NDne reported.
3/
SOURCE
Manock, Eugene R , Grover A Choate, and Donald R Gedney, Oregon
Timber Industries, 1968, Wood Consumption and Mill Characteristics,
Oregon State Department of Forestry jointly with U S Forest Service,
Salem, Oregon, 1968.
1/
2/
- 53 -
Manufac Lur Ln
Table 75.
Value Added by Major Manufacturing Industries,
Clatsop County, 1967
Percent of Total
All manufacturing
Food and kindred products
Lumber and wood products
SOURCE
$36,100,000
8,300,000
5,800,000
100.00
22.99
16.06
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of Manufacturers, 1967, Area
Services: Oregon, MC 67(3) - 38, U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C., 1970.
Table 76. Manufacturing, Other than Lumber and Wood
Products; Food and
Kindred Products and Mineral, Metal, and Related Products Manufacturing,
Clatsop County, 1968 and 1970
Number of Firms
1968
1970
Product Grou
Ship building and repairing
Newspapers, publishing, and
printing
Commercial printing, except
lithography
Electrical housewares, fans
Miscellaneous machinery, except
electrical
Engineering, laboratory and
scientific research instruments
and equipment
Sporting and athletic goods
Food products machinery
Special industrial machinery
Industrial trucks, tractors,
trailers, stackers
Pharmaceutical preparations
Musical instruments
Hard surface floor coverings
2
ent
1970
54
54
17
17
2
6
16
Total
SOURCES:
Emlo
1968
14
Oregon State
Directory of
Oregon State
Directory of
Department of Commerce, Economic Development Division,
Oregon Manufacturers - 1968.
Executive Department, Economic Development Division,
Oregon Manufacturers- 1970.
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Mining - Mineral and Metal Industries
The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries reported in 1972
that the major mineral resources of Clatsop County currently being utilized
are rock and aggregate materials for construction purposes.
The report mdicates further that present quarries for such materials will only be able to
supply half of the quantities needed by 1985.
In order to supply the need,
industries will have to develop new quarries in the county in the next few years.
Table 77.
Mineral, Metal and Related Manufacturing, Clatsop County,
1968 and 1970
Number of Firms
1968
1970
I
Product Group
Concrete products, except block
and brick
Ready-mix concrete
Minerals and earths ground or
otherwise treated
Gray iron foundries
Hardware, not elsewhere classified
Metal cans
Paving mixtures and blocks
1
1
2
1
2
Employment
1968
1970
I
5
76
6
6
NR*
6
6
15
15
--
NR
*NR - not reported.
One firm did not report number of employees.
1/
SOURCE
Oregon State Department of Commerce, Economic Development Dvision,
Directory of Oregon Manufacturers - 1968.
Oregon State Executive Department, Economic Development Division,
Directory of Oregon Manufacturers - 1970.
Table 78.
Value of Mineral Production, Clatsop County, 1963, 1967, 1970
Year
1963
1967
1970
SOURCE:
Value
$211,000
19,000
505,000
Minerals Produced in Order of Value
Sand and gravel
Sand and gravel
Stone, sand and gravel
U.S. Bureau of Mines, Minerals Yearbook, from Bureau of Business
and Economic Research, Oregon Economic Statistics, various years,
University of Oregon.
Outdoor Recreation
Recreation is Important to the economy of Clatsop County.
The county
serves as a principal coastal recreation area for much of the mid and lower
Willamette Valley populations, as well as attracting many people from out
of state, principally from Washington and California.
It is estImated that
$26 million or ten percent of the county's income comes from tourist
and
recreational trade.
One of the prime recreational attractions of the basin is its 40 miles
of coastal shore-line. Besides the developed recreational areas, many
beaches are enjoyed by both residents and tourists for sightseeing, fishing,
picnicking, swimming, boating, and clamming.
Developed recreation areas in the basin include forest camps, state
parks, county parks, roadside rest areas, and boat landings
The tourist
trade is concentrated along the Pacific Coast between Cannon Beach and
Gearhart.
There are a number of state recreation areas within the county, of
which Fort Stevens ranks among the largest in the state. The state also
owns most of the coastal tidelands which were obtained early in the century
to protect coastal areas for public use.
There are also several county parks within the county and many of
these are undergoing expansion of both area and facilities.
Possibly the fastest growing single recreation activity at the present
time is boating
Boating is popular along portions of the Columbia River,
including Youngs Bay, within the ocean bays and river mouths, and for short
distances out into the ocean along the coast. It is estimated that development of the south jetty for the Port of Tillamook would greatly increase
pleasure boating for this area, Oregon's second largest coastal bay
Interest has been shown by Seaside in establishing a small boat harbor and stabilizing the mouth of the Necanicum River.
The Clatsop County area differs from the total state tourist trade in
origin of out of state visitors. A study of Seaside by the Oregon Bureau
of Municipal Research indicated 71 percent of the out-of-state visitors
were from Washington and 7 percent from California, compared to statewide
statistics by the Highway Department showing 46 percent from California and
22 percent from Washington
A study of state parks in the North and Mid-Coast Basins by the Oregon
State Highway Department, Parks and Recreation Division, indicates that state
parks contribute noticeably to the economy of the surrounding area. Expenditures of $5.00 per day would contribute $1,050,000 to the county's economy
annually
Many of the out-of-state visitors surveyed, especially from
Washington and California, came specifically because of the state parks
Fort Stevens along accounts for nineteen percent of the state camper nights
spent on the coast.
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Table 79.
Clatsop County Park and Recreation Facilities, 1968
Ownership and Name
Acres
State
Arcadia Beach State Wayside
Bradley State Wayside
Del Ray Beach State Wayside
Ecola State Park
Fort Stevens State Park
Gearhari- Ocean State Wayside
Haystack Hill State Wayside
Hug Point State Park
Oswald West State Park
Saddle Mountain State Park
Sunset Highway Forest Wayside.
Tolovana Beach State Wayside
Cannon Beach
Seaside Beach
Gearhart Beach
Sunset Beach
Peter Iredale
Clatsop Spit
Facilities & Activities 1/
18.84
18.08
18.70
1,299.49
3,669.78
286.09
9.10
131.31
291.43
3,054.01
545.49
3.31
NA
'V
'V
NA*
P
, H , S , NS
SW,H,S
P,SW,F,H,HT,S ,NS,HS ,A,G
C,P,SW,F,H,S,NS,Hs
NA
NA
P ,SW , HU , H , S
C ,P,SW,F,H,S ,NS ,G
C,P,H,S,NS,G
P,HU,F,H,S,NS
P,SW,F,H,S ,NS
P,SW,F,H,HT,S,NS,HS
P,SW,F,H,S,NS,HS
P ,SW,F,H,HT,S ,HS
Vt
P, SW , F , H , HT , S
'V
'I
Federal
Fort Clatsop National Monument...
Count1
Aldrich Point Boat Ramp
Big Creek Park
Sigfridson Park
Sunset Lake
Cullaby Lake Park
Spruce Run Park
David Douglas Park
Fishhawk Falls
John Day Boat Ramp Park
North Fork Nehalem Park
Elsie Park
125
P,H,S,HS
10
35
113
B, HU , F
1
165
128
64
54
54
3
Municipal
East Boat Basin
Fishermans Dock
Youngs Bay Boat Ramp
Youngs River Falls
Hammond Boat Basin
Gearhart Golf Course
Seaside Boat Ramp
Broadway Park
P,F,NS
P , B , F , S , NS
P,B,SW,F,H,S
P,B,W,SW,F,H,S,NS
C , P , B , S , HU , F , H , S , NS
P,H,S ,NS
P,H,F,HT,S,NS
P,B,W,HU,F
P,F,S
49
HU,H,S ,NS ,HS
NA
NA
NA
B ,F
B,F
B ,F
NA
P,B,SW,F,H,S,NS,G
B,W,SW,F
GF
B,W,F
10
P , GF
5
40
60
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P,H,S
H , S , NS
Table 79, cont.
Clatsop County Park and Recreation Facilities, 1968
Ownership and Name
Acres
Private
Westport
Warrenton Boat Basin
Astoria Country Club
Seaside Golf Course
Klootchie Creek Park
*NA - not available.
1.,
Facilities and Activities:
C - overnight camping
P - picnicking
B - boating
W - water skiing
SW - swimming
SOURCES:
HU--
Facilities & Activities
NA
NA
B , HU , F ,FR
80
CF
NA
CF ,A
10
C,P,B,SW,F,H,S
C , P , B ,SW , F , S
hunting
F-fishing
H-hiking
HT - horse trails
5-sightseeing
CF
HS
A
G
FR
-
golfing
historic
archeologic
geologic
ferry ride
MS - nature study
Oregon State Department of Transportation, State Highway Division,
"State Park Acreages", State Parks and Recreation Section, 1972.
Meyers, Joseph D., Richard T. Leonard, and Oscar R. Granger, A Plan
for Land and Water Use, Clatsop County, Oregon, Phase I, Skidmore,
Owings, and Merrill, Architects and Planners, Portland, Oregon, 1973
Table 80.
Attendance at State Parks in Clatsop County, 1968-72
Park and Use
Fort Stevens
Overnight camping
Day visitor
Saddle Mountain
Overnight camping
Day visitor
Oswald West
Overnight camping
Day visitor
Bradley State Wayside
Day visitor
Del Ray Beach
Day visitor
Ecola
Day visitor
Hug Point
Day visitor
Tolovana Beach
Day visitor
1968-69
I
Attendance
1969-70
1970-71
I
1971-72
173,696
1,034,600
183,649
942,618
180,672
1,040,205
207,153
1,320,982
1,251
29,808
1,217
22,735
1,087
28,838
1,394
37,898
5,047
272,280
8,188
268,060
10,849
340,586
11,029
544,751
97,064
85,104
123,276
96,246
NA
NA
97,896
209,088
277,690
262,284
247,282
126,760
118,014
140,137
147,806
NA*
NA
NA
NA
183,360
*NA - not available.
SOURCES: Oregon State Department of
Transportation, State Highway Division,
"Day Visitor Attendance" and "Overnight Camping by the Public",
State Parks and Recreation Section, 1972.
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Besides economic returns from parks, additional dollars are realized
from expenditures by fishermen, hunters, and campers not using parks
Hunting is regarded as excellent in Clatsop County. The county offers
a variety of game for hunting and recreational purposes
As can be seen
from the table on recreation facilities, there are private, county, and state
recreation areas which provide camping and picnicking for hunters during the
hunting season.
Duck and goose hunting exists on bays and lakes along the coastal portion and along the Columbia River islands on the northern boundary of the
basin. Most big game hunting is for deer and elk.
Table 81.
Game
Ducks
Geese
Pheasant
Blue & ruffed grouse.
Band-tailed pigeon
Mourning dove
Deer 1/
Elk 1/
Clatsop County Game Harvest
Hunters
Percent of
Number
State Total
Harvest
Percent of
Number
State Total
Days
Hunted
1,340
410
20,970
640
3.68
0.36
0.31
4.05
4 53
0.02
7.15
12,670
3,070
8.98
36,430
325
273
597
23
4,040
7,750
2.40
1.50
0.45
3.53
4 81
0.14
1.44
10.39
775
682
5,484
39
920
923
761
696
3,092
90
NA*
*NA - not available.
1/
Figures are for Clatsop Game Management Unit, not Clatsop County.
SOURCES: Oregon State Game Commission, "1966 Upland Game Questionnaire",
1967; "Water Fowl Estimates, 1969-70 Season", 1970; "Oregon State
Game Commission Bulletin", May 1972.
Sport fishing is also an important recreational activity in Clatsop
County
Not only are there numerous charter fishing boat companies which
take fishermen deep sea fishing, but there are also many private boats that
fish on the ocean and on the many rivers in the county
In 1970 there were
64,646 angler trips out of Astoria which resulted in a catch of 1 36 salmon
per trip. This includes both Coho and Chinook salmon caught off the Oregon
coast.
Fishing appears to be an increasingly popular recreational activity
for Oregonians as the number of fishermen has increasedsteadily over the
past four years.
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Bus triess
Table 82.
Retail and Wholesale Trade, Clatsop County, 1967
Number
Establishments
Kind of Business
Retail trade, total
362
Lumber, building materials, hardware, farm equipment dealers
General merchandise group stores
Food stores
Automotive dealers
Gasoline service stations
Apparel, accessory stores
Furniture, home furnishing,
equipment stores
Eating, drinking places
Drug, proprietary stores
Other retail stores
Non-store retailers
Wholesale trade, total 3/
1/
2/
3/
12
11
55
19
si
27
15
Number
Paid .:/
Emdo ees
1,428
2/
Sales
($1 000)
$48,580
2,347
1,169
13,940
7,366
4,218
4,140
62
20
2,160
5,015
1,546
5,006
1,673
43
$10,130
83
7
Excludes active proprietors of unincorporated businesses.
This data available only for counties with 500 or more establishments
Only those counties with 100 or more wholesale establishments
are broken
down into types of business.
SOURCES
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of
Business, 1967 Retail Trade
Oregon, BC 67 - BA 39; 1967 Wholesale Trade: Oregon, BC 67 - WA 39,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972.
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Table 83.
Selected Services, Clatsop County, 1967
Kind of Business
Selected services, total
Hotels, motels, tourist courts,
camps
Personal services
Miscellaneous business services
Auto repair, services, garages
Miscellaneous repair services
Motion pictures
Amusement, recreation services,
except motion pictures
Number
Establishments
Receipts
($1,000)
Number
Paid 1/
Emilo ees
266
$6,743
494
100
50
33
24
35
3
21
Excludes active proprietors of unincorporated businesses.
This data is available only for counties with 300 establishments or more
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Business, 1967, Selected Services:
Oregon, BC 67 - SA 39, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.,
1/
2/
1969.
Commercial Fishing and Shipping
Commercial fishing is important to the economy of Clatsop County, especially in the Astoria area. It is estimated that half of the total weight
and half of the dollar value of the fish harvest in the state are in the
Astoria area.
Commercial fishing in the Columbia River and off the coast supports a
large fish processing industry, including fresh, frozen and canned fish, and
shellfish products and by-products. Included in the fish processed annually
Fish proessing
at Astoria are many tons of whole frozen tuna from Japan
There is
plants concentrate in the Seaside, Warrenton, and Astoria areas
also a can manufacturing plant in Astoria operated by American Can Company.
Coastal fishing is generally full time, with set seasons for different
For example, many coastal fishermen change from salmon to crab
species.
fishing in the winter. Coastal fishing was previously dominated by chinook
Since
and silver salmon, with salmon leading all other species in value
1935, however, the albacore tuna has become an important part of the Oregon
fish industry and has surpassed coastal salmon in poundage and rivals it
in value.
Because ocean fish is widely distributed, many home ports are outside
However, Astoria also receives some of the fish from boats operthe basin
ating out of the Coos Bay and Newport areas with the fish being trucked from
the home port.
A whaling industry is also based in Clatsop County.
It began in the
spring of 1961, principally for providing food required by the mink farms.
This operation is based at Warrenton.
Cocktail-size pink shrimp are a newly developed commercial fishery in
the off-shore waters of the county, with almost 2.6 million poundslanded
in 1970.
Experimental plantings of Pacific oysters have been made in Nehalem
Bay.
Five species of bay clams are dug by commercial diggers in the bays
of the county. A separate species, razor clams, are found between Seaside
and Astoria. Clatsop County contributes over 95 percent of the total Oregon
razor clam harvest.
Tunapacking in the Astoria area accounted for over 80 percent of the
total northwest tuna pack in 1957. This includes processing of both local
and imported tuna.
Shellfish, rockfish and flatfish are the leaders of other ocean fish
caught annually.
A substantial market has developed for scrap fish, important to the mink industry.
The salmon fishing season on the Columbia River is generally less than
100 days in length, therefore providing only part-time work for the fishermen.
The seasons vary for different species, with exact dates established
each year.
Chinook salmon were being fished commercially on the Columbia as early
as 1866, and this fishery reached its all-time peak in 1883, with over 42
million pounds taken
Other fish caught commercially on the Columbia include
sturgeon, shad, and smelt.
The commercial crab fishery is first in economic importance of the basin's
shellfish
Crabs are caught within the three-mile limit of Oregon's coast
line and, to a lesser degree, in all the estuaries of the basin and the Columbia
River.
The dollar contribution of the fishing industry to Clatsop County is
difficult to estimate
However, the Clatsop County Long Range Planning Conference determined in 1968 that the wholesale value of processed fish was
$58,000,000 annually
Ten to fifteen percent of that amount represents fish
harvesting and the remaining 85 to 90 percent represents processing of the
fish
The Oregon State University Extension Service estimates that the value
of fishing boats, equipment, and canneries is approximately $20,000,000
Approximately 1,700 people participate in the fishing industry either
as full or part-time workers
Although the percentage of fish consumption
continues to be low in the United States as compared to many other countries,
the fishing industry in Astoria will probably continue to grow due to ideal
location and the increasing demand which accompanies increasing population.
Table 84.
Fish Landings, Clatsop County, 1969, 1970, 1971
Source, Poundage, and Value
1969
1970
1971
From ocean
Pounds
Dollar value to fishermen
41,704,751
$7,670,000
42,973,686
$8,792,000
29,750,716
$5,683,000
From Columbia River
Pounds
Dollar value to fishermen
4,049,855
$1,398,000
7,243,831
$2,565,000
4,253,410
$1,399,000
Total from ocean and Columbia River
Pounds
Dollar value to fishermen
45,754,606
$9,068,000
50,217,517
$11,357,000
34,004,126
$7,082,000
18,708,000
6,152,000
6,078,000
Foreign fish imports to Port
of Astoria
Pounds .......
SOURCE:
Meyers, Joseph T., Richard T. Leonard and Oscar R. Granger, A Plan
for Land and Water Use, Clatsop County, Phase I, Skidmore, Owings,
and Merrill, Architects and Planners, Portland, Oregon, 1973
Astoria is one of the leading ports in Oregon in vessel cargo tonnage
handled annually
The three leading commodity groups handled are wood and
paper, nonmetallic minerals, and vegetable food products and beverages.
Among commodities exported to foreign markets are wheat, flour, barley,
lumber, canned goods, newsprint, and fish products
Of lesser importance
and volume are foreign imports, including fish and shellfish products and
manufactured wood products
Coast-wise trade to and from Astoria accounts
for a large volume made up of wheat, lumber, watercraft, petroleum products,
chenicals, and raf ted logs
Although there have been fluctuations in vessel lading tonnage from year
to iear, the long-term trend appears to be steady
The same is true of raf ted
timber tonnages although fluctuations are of smaller magnitude
It has been
sugge5ted that the Columbia River channel be increased to a depth of 55 feet
This would allow larger ocean-going ships to dock at the Astoria-Hammond area
Thi', would not only have economic value because of the increased shipping
trade, but also because it would draw new industries to the area as a result
These new industries, such as the proposed AMAX aluminum plant in the Warrenton
area, would help to stabilize the county economy, which tends to fluctuate
with the tourist trade.
PUBLIC SERVICES
Transportation
Clatsop County has an excellent system of federal, state, and local
highways which connect the major cities of the county to each other and
to
Portland and other Willamette Valley cities. U.S. Highway 30 crosses the
county along the northern border and connects Astoria to Portland
State
Highway 202 also connects Astoria and Portland but crosses the
county in
a southeasterly direction, passing through Jewell. U.S. Highway 101 traverses the county from north to south along the coast and is heavily traveled
by tourists visiting the ocean beaches and parks. U.S. Highway 26 crosses
the southern part of the county and connects this part of the county and
Seaside to Portland and the Willamette Valley. There is year-round access
to all developed parts of the county via the road system in Clatsop County.
Over the last ten-year period there has been an increase in road use in
Clatsop County similar to that in the Willamette Valley
There has been no passenger service offered by the railroad in Clatsop
County since 1949. However, one railroad offers freight
service.
There are three airports in the county located near Astoria, Seaside,
and Svensen
The Astoria airport offers two scheduled commercial passenger
flights per day and freight service through Air West
The other two airports do not have shceduled service and are used primarily for
transportation
to resort areas by small private aircraft
Because of its location near the Pacific Ocean and the Columbia River,
water transportation has been an essential part of Clatsop County transportation since men first settled the area
The Columbia River ship channel
is used by tankers, barges, fishing boats, dry cargo ships, log
rafts, and
private pleasure boats
Other waterways in the county are used for log
rafts, fishing vessels, and pleasure craft.
Regulation of the water transportation in the county is handled through
the Port of Astoria
The Port of Astoria has three piers with nine berths
and facilities for storage and handling grain
Only eight percent of the
tonnage that crosses the Columbia River bar is shipped to Astoria
The bulk
of the shipments are to upriver ports, primarily Portland
Scheduled bus service is offered by Greyhound Bus Lines with depots in
both Seaside and Astoria
There is also a local charter and rental bus
service operating out of Astoria.
Three trucking companies, two in Astoria and one in Seaside,
serve the
county for local truck transportation
There are also several companies in
both Astoria and Seaside that transport products to Portland and
up and down
the coast.
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Table 85.
Miles of Roadway in Clatsop County, 1972
Agency
Miles
Federal agency roads
State agency roads
County and public usage roads 1/
City streets
357
251
106
Total
714
1/
Public usage roads are roads under county jurisdiction but generally
privately maintained.
SOURCE
Transportation Research Institute, Oregon State University,
Functional Classification of Public Roads and Streets in Oregon,
1970.
Table 86.
Motor Vehicle Registration, Clatsop County, 1970 and 1972
Number of Vehicles
1970
1972
Vehicle
Passenger vehicles
Buses
Trucks
All trailers
Motorcycles
Recreational 1/
Snowmobiles
16,587
Total vehicles
19,773
17,407
10
776
396
929
1,011
21
702
938
731
794
NA*
3
20,532
*NA - not available.
1/
Includes campers and travel trailers.
SOURCE:
1970 figures from Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Oregon
Economic Statistics, 1972, University of Oregon, 1972; 1972 figures
from Oregon State Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicles Division, unpublished data.
Table 87.
Number of Aircraft and Boats in Clatsop County, 1968
Number
Subject
Aircraft
38
1,371
Boats ........
SOURCE:
Oregon State Executive Department, Program Planning Division,
District Facts, 1970.
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Communication
Table 88.
Communication Facilities, Clatsop County
Type of Service
Location
Radio stations
KAST
KVAS
KSWB
Astoria
Astoria
Seaside
Telephone
Knappa Telephone Company
Pacific Northwest Bell
Network
Affiliation
ABC
Knappa
Warrenton, Jewell,
Westport, Cannon Beach,
Gearhart, Knappa, Seaside
Television stations
None within the county, but served
by stations outside the county
through cable TV
Newspapers
The Daily Astorian
Columbia Press
Seaside Signal
SOURCES:
Astoria
Astoria
Seaside
Oregon Association of Broadcasters, Directory of Radio and Television Stations for the State of Oregon, 1972.
Oregon State Executive Department, Clay Meyers, Secretary of State,
Oregon Blue Book, 1973-74, January 1973.
Pacific Northwest Bell, unpublished data.
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Table 89.
Residential Communication Facilities, Clatsop County,
1960 and 1970
Number of Housing Units
1960
1970
Facilities
Battery radio sets
Yes
7,508
2,697
NA*
NA
No
Telephone available
Yes
No
Television sets
One
Two or more
None
7,701
1,747
9,159
1,046
7,086
400
1,962
7,600
1,488
1,117
NA
NA
3,194
UHF equipped television
Yes
No
5,894
*NA - not available.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Housing: 1960 and 1970
Detailed Housing Characteristics, Final Report HC(1) - B39, Oregon,
U S Government Printing Office, Washington, D C
1962, 1972
,
Library Facilities
The two public library facilities in Clatsop County are located in
the two largest cities in the county, Astoria and Seaside.
Besides these
facilities, there is an additional library in Astoria located on the Clatsop
Community College campus.
Table 90.
Clatsop County Libraries, by City of Location, 1969-70
Volumes
Circulation
Circ./
Capita
Astoria
Seaside
40,289
16,014
86,804
40,605
8.03
9.78
Couty total.
56,303
127,409
City
SOURCE:
4.4
Hrs. Open
Per Week
71
41
Operating
Expend.
Expend.!
Capita
$52,561
13,460
$4.87
3.24
$66,021
$2.29
Nielsen, Alice M., Editor, Directory of Oregon Libraries, annual
statistics for the year ending June 30, 1970, Oregon State Library,
Salem, Oregon.
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Utilities
The following tables give information on the types of utilities available
to individual households in the county
For further information on municipal
water supplies, consult the Water section of the Physical Aspects division of
this publication.
Table 91.
Housing Units by Water Supply and Sewage Disposal,
Clatsop County, 1970
State
Percent1!
ect
Water source
Public system or private company...
Individual well
Other or none
11,376
449
Sewage disposal
Public sewer
Septic tank or cesspool
Other or none
369
93.2
3.7
3.0
79.8
16.9
3.2
7,298
4,727
169
59.8
38.7
1.4
61.0
37.5
1.4
1/
Percent of all year-round housing.
SOURCE
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of Housing
1970 Detailed Housing
Characteristics, Final Report HC(l) - B39, Oregon, U S Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972.
Table 92
Housing Units by Water Supply and Sewage Disposal for Places with
Over 2,500 Inhabitants, Clatsop County, 1970
Subject
Astoria
Number [ Percent
Seaside
Number I Percent
Water source
Public system or private
company...........
Individual well
Other or none
Sewage disposal
Public sewer
Septic tank or cesspool
Other or none
SOURCE
99.7
8
0.2
8
0.3
4,132
115
96.9
2.7
0.5
2,286
301
--
88.4
11.6
--
23
U S Bureau of the Census, Census of Housing
1970 Detailed Housing
Characteristics, Final Report HC(l) - B39, Oregon, U S Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972.
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Table 93
Types of Fuels and Fuel Usage, Number of Housing Units,
Ciatsop County, 1960 and 1970
Type of Fuels
Utility gas
Fuel oil, kerosene, etc
Coal or coke
Wood
Electricity
Bottled, tank, or LP gas.
Other fuel
None
........................
All occupied housing units.
SOURCE:
Home Heating
Fuel
1960
1970
I
20
Water Heating
Fuel
1960
1970
I
1,109
1,758
321
2,110
4,895
-343
2,555
226
491
-318
8,210
156
483
273
-174
9,068
132
20
76
--
273
75
9,448
10,205
6,179
41
Cooking
Fuel
1960 I 1970
-450
458
21
-210
9,146
245
450
8,150
318
-59
67
79
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Housing: 1960 and 1970
Detailed Housing Characteristics, Final Report HC(l) - B39, Oregon,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1962, 1972.
Pacific Power and Light Company supplies electrical power to homes in
Clatsop County
It operates one electric power plant in Clatsop County at
Astoria. The generator has a nameplate rating of 8,000 kilowatts and a peaking capacity of 8,800 kilowatts. There is a potential for developing this
plant to 25,000 kilowatt capacity.
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PUBLIC FINANCE
lable 94
Selected items of Local Government Finances, Clatsop County, 1966-67
Clatsop County
Total
Per Capita
Amount
Amount
I tern
$1,000 General revenue, exc. interlocal..,
Intergovernmental revenue
From state government
From local sources
Taxes
Property
Other
Charges and miscellaneous
Direct general expenditure
Capital outlay
Other
Education
Other than capital outlay
Highways
Other than capital outlay
Public welfare
Hospitals
Other than capital outlay
Health
Police protection
Fire protection
Sewerage
Other than capital outlay
Sanitation other than sewerage
Parks and recreation
Natural resources
Housing and urban renewal
Correction
Libraries
Financial administration
General control
General public buildings
Interest on general debt
Other and unallocable
$10,025
2,600
2,392
7,425
4,453
4,31.9
134
2,97.2
State
Per Capita
Amount'
- - - doll ars,- - $394.68
102.36
94.16
292.32
175.30
170.03
5.27
117.02
$308
412.10
75.24
336.86
221.22
201.02
25.71
18.65
316
62
254
180
152
30
10,467
1,911
8,556
5,619
5,106
653,
474
9,7
83
210
156
151
5
54
20
2
393
353
72
388
203
62
58
100
118
47
15.48
13.90
2.83
15.29
8.00
2.43
'2.29
3.93
4.66
1.84
217
166
223
57
235
'
8.53
6.52
8.77
2.26
6
4
12
9
8
3
2
10
4
4
2
3
5
8
3
9. 25
6
1,915
75.38
21
Water supply revenue
Water Supply expenditure
486
374
19.13
14.74
12
13
General debt outstanding
7,584
7,548
4,472
3,076
298.60
297.15
176.05
121.10
214
203
101
101
Long- term
Local school
Other
SOURCE:
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Governments, 1967, Vol. 4, No.
5
Compendium of Government Finances, U S Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C., 1969.
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Table 95.
City Valuation, Tax Rates and Taxes Extended in Clatsop County
for 1971-72 Fiscal Year
Item
Population
True Cash Value (TCV)
Per capita TCV
City tax
Consolidated tax
Per capita tax
Astoria
Seaside
Warrenton
10,400
$73,119,992
7,031
511,840
2,320,829
4,425
$39,998,283
9,039
222,390
1,083,553
1,850
$12,834,939
6,938
59,682
403,402
49
223
50
245
32
218
4.6
22.1
69.5
33
5.4
20.5
60.9
13.2
4.7
14.8
78.4
2.1
1 47
7.00
22.05
1.22
31.74
1 47
5.56
16.49
3.57
27.09
1 47
4.65
24.64
0.67
31.43
City
Consolidated
Percentage of total levy
County
City
School
Other
Average rate/$TCV basis
County
City
School
Other
Total
Item
Population
True Cash Value (TCV)
Per capita TCV
City tax
Consolidated tax
Per capita tax
City
Consolidated
Percentage of total levy
Cannon Beach
520
$2,997,278
5,764
4,196
84,463
790
850
$11,974,545
14,088
20,237
267,272
60
491
24
8
314
162
6.1
12.3
67.9
13.8
6.6
7.6
73.9
12.0
5.2
5.0
87.4
2.4
1.47
2.98
16 49
1.47
1.69
16 49
1.47
1.40
24 64
....................
SOURCE:
Hammond
$15,969,208
20,214
47,588
387,892
County................
City
School
Other
Average rate/$TCV basis
County
City
School
Other
Total
Gearhart
335
267
067
24.29
22.32
28.18
Oregon State Department of Revenue, Summary of Assessment and Tax
Rolls for the 1972-72 Fiscal Year and 1969-70 and 1970-71 Property
Tax Collections, Research and Special Services Division, 1972
Table
96.
Summary of
1971-72 Property Tax Levies and Assessments,
Clatsop County
I tern
Amount In Dollars
Levies
County
Cities
Community colleges
Elementary and Secondary School Districts
Intermediate county
Education joint
Elementary and unified
Union high
County unit
Total school districts
Special districts
Cemetery
Fire protection
Hospital
Park and Recreation
Port
Road
Sanitary
Water supply
Other
Total special districts
Total gross ad valorem levies
Special assessments
Fire patrol
Forest fee
Diking and drainage
Irrigation
Lighting
Other
Total special assessments
Total gross levies and assessments
Less property relief money
Senior citizens
Game Commission
Total net ad valorem levies
Net ad valorem taxes by class
Real property
Personal property
Utility property
SOURCE
$
569,166
865,934
708,554
1,802,436
890, 407
3,890,808
6,583,651
48,441
147,235
259,416
307 ,367
762 ,45
9,489,764
69,763
7,114
10,969
87,846
9,577,610
(58,542)
( 2,031)
9,429,191
7,838,936
867,085
723,171
Oregon State Department of Revenue, Summary of Assessment and Tax
Rolls for the 1971-72 Fiscal Year and 1969-70 and 1970-71
Property
Tax Collections, Research and Special ServicesDivision, 1972.
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72 -
Table 97.
Summary of Assessment Rolls for 1971-72 Fiscal Year Real Property,
Personal Property and Utilities, Clatsop County
I tern
Assessed
Value
Percent of
Total
$ 42,072,685
37,897,700
87,844,035
145,369,410
16,399,425
(3,251,605)
(2,088,040)
324,243,610
10.93
9.84
22.82
37.76
4.26
0.84
0.54
84.22
16,471,461
7,133,055
754,350
6,340,100
1,023,535
1,886,995
(12,860)
4.28
1.85
0.20
1.65
0.27
0.49
Class
Real property
Lands inside corporate limits
Lands outside corporate limits
Improvements inside corporate limits
Improvements outside corporate limits
Timber (excludes land)
Less veterans exemptions
Less senior citizens residence exemptions.
Taxable real property
Personal property
Merchandise and stock in trade
Furniture, fixtures and equipment
Farm machinery and equipment
Other machinery and equipment
Livestock
Miscellaneous
Less veterans exemptions
Less senior citizens residence exemptions
Taxable personal property
Total taxable real and personal property
Utilities
Airline companies
Electric companies
Express companies ......
Gas companies
Heating companies
Pipeline companies
Railroad companies
Tank and private car companies
Telegraph companies
Telephone companies
Water companies
'Water transportation companies
Taxable utility property
Total taxable real, personal and utility
property
1/
( 2,320)
1/
1/
33,594,316
8.73
357,837,926
92.95
31,900
10,675,446
2.77
4,762,572
1.24
1,277,775
0.33
13,900
8,156,672
219,800
2,019,500
27,157,565
2.12
0.06
0.52
7.05
384,995,491
100.00
1/
1/
Less than 0.05 percent.
Oregon State Department of Revenue, Summary of Assessment and Tax
Rolls for the 1971-72 Fiscal Year and 1969-70 and 1970-71 Property
lax Collections, Research and Special Services Division, 1972
SOURCE:
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Table 98.
Amount and Percent of Unpaid 1970-71 Property Tax
As of June 30, 1971, Clatsop County
Item
Property taxable
Real
Personal
Public utilities
Western Oregon additional
timber tax
Yield tax
Other
Total for collection
1/
SOURCE
Total
Amount
Amount
Unpaid
Percent
Unpaid
$6,980,186
743,855
609,094
$1,156,043
113,008
31,422
16.6
15.2
5.2
143,319
72564
8,549,018
1/
1,300,473
15.2
is not included in taxes unpaid.
Oregon State Department of Revenue, Summary of Assessment and Tax
Rolls for the 1971-72 Fiscal Year and 1969-70 and 1970-71 Property
Tax Collections, Research and Special Services Division, 1972.
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Selected List of Agencies
The following list gives names and addresses of agencies that have
served as data sources for this publication and may provide further or more
current data on subjects of interest
In addition, a number of local and county offices are available to offer
local information and assistance, including
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation
Assessor
City Library
Corrections and Parole
County Engineer
County Extension
County Surveyor
Employment Division
Game Commission
Health Department
Public Welfare
Soil Conservation Service
Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of Oregon, Eugene,
Oregon 97403
Center for Population Research and Census, Portland State University,
724 S.W. Harrison, Portland, Oregon 97201
Children Services Division, Oregon State Department of Human Resources,
Public Services Building, Salem, Oregon 97310
4
5
Department of Environmental Quality, 1234 S W Morrison, Portland,
Oregon 97204
Economic Research Service, U S D A
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
Extension Hall, Oregon State University,
6.
Extension Service, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
7
Fish Commission of Oregon, 1400 S W
8
9
10
5th St
,
Portland, Oregon 97201
4-H Youth Office, Extension Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis,
Oregon 97331
Forest Service, U S D A , 319 S W
Pine St , Portland, Oregon 97204
Governor's Office, Economic Development Special Projects, State Capitol
Building, Salem, Oregon 97310
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11.
Local Government Relations Division, Oregon Executive Department, 240
Cottage S.E., Salem, Oregon 97310
12
Oregon Association of Broadcasters, Allen Hall, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon 97403
13.
Oregon Board of Higher Education, School Finance and Statistical
Services, 942 Lancaster Dr. N.E., Salem, Oregon 97310
Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, 1400 S.W. 5th St.,
Portland, Oregon 97201
Oregon Educational Coordinating Council, 4263 Commercial S.E., Salem,
Oregon 97310
16.
Oregon State Department of Revenue, State Office Building, Salem, Oregon
97310
17
Oregon State Employment Division, Community Manpower, Research and
Statistics, or Rural Manpower Sections, Labor and Industries Building,
Salem, Oregon 97310
18
Oregon State Game Commission, 1634 Alder, Portland, Oregon 97214
19
Oregon State Health Division, Department of Human Resources, 1400
S W
5th, Portland, Oregon 97201
20
Oregon State Highway Division, State Parks and Recreation Section, 8009
E
Burnside, Portland, Oregon 97215
21
Oregon State Lands Division, 502 Winter N E
,
Salem, Oregon 97310
22
Oregon State Library, State Library Building, Salem, Oregon 97310
23
Oregon State Public Welfare Division, Department of Human Resources,
Public Services Building, Salem, Oregon 97310
24
Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U S
809 N.E. 6th St., Portland, Oregon 97232
Forest Service,
25
Secretary of State's Office, State Capitol Building, Salem, Oregon
97310
26
Soil Conservation Service, U S D A , 1218 S W Washington, Portland,
Oregon 97205
27
State Water Resources Board, 1158 Chemeketa N E
28
,
Salem, Oregon 97310
U S Department of Commerce, 921 S
W Washington, Portland, Oregon 97204
(for copies of U.S. Census publications)
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4
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8
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of the Governor, Planning Division, Health Facts, 1969
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Oregon Conservation Needs Committee, Oregon Soil and Water Conservation
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Annual Revision, Health Facility Planning and Construction Section, 1971.
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Oregon State Department of Employmett, 1965 Oregon Farm Labor
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Control
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Research and Statistics Section, 1969, 1972.
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27
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28
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1972
29
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31
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Oregon State Executive Department, Program Planning Division, District
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34
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,
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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
EXTENSION
fl SERVICE
Extension Soivice, Oveqon State University, Corvallis, Joseph R. Cox, director. This publication was produced
and distributed In furtherance of the Acts of Congress of May 8 and Juno 30, 1914 Extension work is a
cooperative program of Oregon Stats University, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Oregon cooiutes