Cannon Beach, Oregon
| Cannon Beach, Oregon | |
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| City | |
Facing South, with Haystack Rock on the right
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 Location in Oregon |
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| Coordinates: 45°53′21″N 123°57′39″W / 45.88917°N 123.96083°WCoordinates: 45°53′21″N 123°57′39″W / 45.88917°N 123.96083°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Clatsop |
| Incorporated | 1956 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sam Steidel |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.54 sq mi (3.99 km2) |
| • Land | 1.54 sq mi (3.99 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 30 ft (9.14 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,690 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 1,692 |
| • Density | 1,097.4/sq mi (423.7/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | Pacific (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 97110 |
| Area code(s) | 503 |
| FIPS code | 41-10850 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1136119 |
| Website | www.ci.cannon-beach.or.us |
Cannon Beach is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,690 at the 2010 census.
The first recorded journey by an American to what is now Cannon Beach was made by William Clark, one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in early 1805. The expedition was wintering at Fort Clatsop, roughly 20 miles (32 km) to the north near the mouth of the Columbia River. In December 1805, two members of the expedition returned to camp with blubber from a whale that had beached several miles south, near the mouth of Ecola Creek. Clark later explored the region himself. From a spot near the western cliffs of the headland he saw "...the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed, in front of a boundless Ocean..." That viewpoint, later dubbed "Clark's Point of View," can be accessed by a hiking trail from Indian Beach in Ecola State Park.
Clark and several of his companions, including Sacagawea, completed a three-day journey on January 10, 1806, to the site of the beached whale. They encountered a group of Native Americans from the Tillamook tribe who were boiling blubber for storage. Clark and his party met with them and successfully bartered for 300 pounds (140 kg) of blubber and some whale oil before returning to Fort Clatsop. There is a wooden whale sculpture commemorating the encounter between Clark's group and the Tillamooks in a small park at the northern end of Hemlock Street.
Clark applied the name "Ekoli" to what is now Ecola Creek.Ehkoli is a Chinook word for "whale". Early settlers later renamed the creek "Elk Creek", and a community with the same name formed nearby.
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