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The Alsea area was settled by Europeans early as 1855, when the name "Alseya Settlement" appeared on the Surveyor general's map. Alsea post office was established in 1871. [5] In the early 1850s settlers moved from the Willamette Valley into the Alsea area to take up donation land claims. [6]
Waldport is a city in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. The population was 2,033 at the 2010 census. The city is located on the Alsea River and Alsea Bay, 15 miles (24 km) south of Newport [5] and 8 miles (13 km) north of Yachats. [6]
Tidewater is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States located on the Alsea River east of Waldport on Oregon Route 34. Tidewater was named because it is near the head of the tide of the Alsea River. [2] Tidewater post office was established in 1878. [2]
In 1908, the Corvallis and Alsea River Railway Company began construction of a line that ended in the settlement of Alpine when funding ran out. [3] The community has burned three times since its heyday in the early 1900s. [4] A post office was established in 1912 and operated until 1976. [3] Alpine now has a Monroe mailing address.
According to Oregon Geographic Names, the name comes from the Siletz language and means "at the foot of the mountain". There is a range of differing etymologies. [7] William Bright says the name comes from the Alsea placename yáx̣ayk y (IPA: /ˈjaχajkʲ/). [8] At the 2020 census, the city's population was 994.
Oregon Route 34 begins (at its western terminus) at its junction with U.S. Route 101 in Waldport. It follows the Alsea River through Tidewater to the community of Alsea, where it heads northeast to its junction with U.S. Route 20 near Philomath. OR 34 and US 20 share the same roadway between Philomath and the college town of Corvallis.
OR 501 is known as the Alsea-Deadwood Highway No. 201 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is 9.49 miles (15.27 km) long [ 1 ] and runs north–south, entirely within Benton County . OR 501 was established in 2002 as part of Oregon's project to assign route numbers to highways that previously were not assigned.
Tenmile Creek is the outlet for a chain of lakes ending at Tenmile Lake near Lakeside in Coos County in the U.S. state of Oregon.The creek flows generally west for about 3 miles (5 km) from the lake to the Pacific Ocean. [3]