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Cannon Beach, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Seaside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97110. It stands on Ecola Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tillamook Head quadrangle. 1,489 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Cannon Beach within Clatsop County

On record in Cannon Beach

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Cannon Beach fell from 1,588 to 1,489 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,588
20101,690+102 (+6%)
20201,489-201 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

What the histories say of this town

420 words

1 chapter about Cannon Beach from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
The Land of Better Living: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of AsThe Land of Better Living: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of Astoria and Clatsop County, Oregon: The Gateway of the Great Columbia Empire of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, Through Which the World Will Trade, to Which the Tourist, the Farmer, and the Manufacturer Will Come. (1925)420 words

Fires near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cannon Beach between 1993 and 2015, burning about 214 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictHWY 101
15 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictKLOOTCHY CREEK #029
15 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAstoria DistrictBLUE BIRD
6 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictWAGNER FIRE
22 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHUG POINT 2
22 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictHOG HEAVEN
19 August 2006Fireworksunder an acreAstoria DistrictINDIAN BEACH
9 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictNECANICUM VIEW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Cannon Beach: 12 past producers, 9 producers, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mulligan # 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Edith Gallaher ClayClayPast Producer
Edith Gallaher ClayClayOccurrence
P M West ClayClayPast Producer
P. M. West ClayClayPast Producer
Mulligan PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Square Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
The KnollStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clatsop County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cannon Beach in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 2 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2026Funnel CloudCannon Beach-Member of the public reported a funnel cloudy near Haystack Rock in Cannon beach with a clear picture showing this feature.
September 2020Heavy RainCannon Beach-Total rainfall of 2.70 inches.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindCannon Beach-Strong thunderstorm produced a gust to 59 mph at a weather station located in Cannon Beach.
January 2009Heavy RainCannon Beach-Heavy rain caused small streams and creeks to overflow which resulted in several inches of water over highway 101 near the interchange of highways 101 and 26.
April 1996HailCannon Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clatsop County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tolovana Park1.4 miles15
Arch Cape4.3 miles15
Seaside7.3 miles16
Necanicum (historical)9.4 miles14
Gearhart9.5 miles16
Surf Pines11.7 miles16
Melville13.2 miles15
Hamlet14.2 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Cannon BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988747The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136119. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.