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.
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
Oswald West Coastal Retreatlisted 1992
Population over time
3 figuresCannon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,588 | |
| 2010 | 1,690 | +102 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 1,489 | -201 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1940 USGS Cape Falcon quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Tillamook Head quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Cannon Beach quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Nehalem River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
What the histories say of this town
420 words1 chapter about Cannon Beach from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| The Land of Better Living: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of As | The 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 1993Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | HWY 101 |
| 15 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | KLOOTCHY CREEK #029 |
| 15 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Astoria District | BLUE BIRD |
| 6 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | WAGNER FIRE |
| 22 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HUG POINT 2 |
| 22 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | HOG HEAVEN |
| 19 August 2006 | Fireworks | under an acre | Astoria District | INDIAN BEACH |
| 9 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | NECANICUM VIEW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mulligan # 1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Peterson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Peterson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Edith Gallaher Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Edith Gallaher Clay | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| P M West Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| P. M. West Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Mulligan Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Square Creek Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| The Knoll | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | Funnel Cloud | Cannon Beach | - | Member of the public reported a funnel cloudy near Haystack Rock in Cannon beach with a clear picture showing this feature. |
| September 2020 | Heavy Rain | Cannon Beach | - | Total rainfall of 2.70 inches. |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannon Beach | - | Strong thunderstorm produced a gust to 59 mph at a weather station located in Cannon Beach. |
| January 2009 | Heavy Rain | Cannon 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 1996 | Hail | Cannon Beach | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tolovana Park | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Arch Cape | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Seaside | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Necanicum (historical) | 9.4 miles | 14 | |
| Gearhart | 9.5 miles | 16 | |
| Surf Pines | 11.7 miles | 16 | |
| Melville | 13.2 miles | 15 | |
| Hamlet | 14.2 miles | 17 |
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 Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q988747 | The 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.







