Seaside, Oregon
| Seaside, Oregon | |
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| City | |
Seaside Promenade
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 Location in Oregon and Clatsop County |
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| Coordinates: 45°59′34″N 123°55′20″W / 45.99278°N 123.92222°WCoordinates: 45°59′34″N 123°55′20″W / 45.99278°N 123.92222°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Clatsop |
| Incorporated | 1899 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jay Barber |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.14 sq mi (10.72 km2) |
| • Land | 3.94 sq mi (10.20 km2) |
| • Water | 0.20 sq mi (0.52 km2) |
| Elevation | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 6,457 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 6,471 |
| • Density | 1,638.8/sq mi (632.7/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | Pacific (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 97138 |
| Area code(s) | 503 and 971 |
| FIPS code | 41-65950 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1136735 |
| Website | www.cityofseaside.us |
Seaside is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. The name Seaside is derived from Seaside House, a historic summer resort built in the 1870s by railroad magnate Ben Holladay. The city's population was 6,457 at the 2010 census.
The Clatsop were an historic Native American tribe that had a village named Ne-co-tat (in their Chinook language) in this area. Indigenous peoples had long inhabited the coastal area.
About January 1, 1806, a group of men from the Lewis and Clark Expedition built a salt-making cairn at the site later developed as Seaside. The city was not incorporated until February 17, 1899, when coastal resort areas were being settled. It is about 79 miles by car northwest of Portland, Oregon, a major population center.
In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843–1932) was elected Mayor of Seaside. Gilbert was a French immigrant, a veteran of the Franco Prussian War (1870-1871). After living in San Francisco, California and Astoria, Oregon, Gilbert moved to Seaside where he had a beach cottage (built in 1885). Gilbert was a real estate developer who donated land to the City of Seaside for its one-and-a-half-mile-long Promenade, or "Prom," along the Pacific beach.
In 1892 he added to his beach cottage. Nearly 100 years later, what was known as the Gilbert House was operated commercially as the Gilbert Inn since the mid-1980s. Both it and Gilbert's eponymous "Gilbert Block" office building on Broadway still survive.
Gilbert died at home in Seaside and is interred in Ocean View Abbey Mausoleum in Warrenton.
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