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Nehalem, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Nehalem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97131. It stands on Tubessing Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nehalem quadrangle. 270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 11 feet above sea level.

Nehalem within Tillamook County

On record in Nehalem

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Nehalem grew from 203 to 270 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
2000203
2010271+68 (+33%)
2020270-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Nehalem between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 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 burning16
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2006Smokingunder an acreTillamook DistrictJETTY CREEK
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictKNOB FIRE
25 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTillamook DistrictFOSS
23 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictMANZANITA LOG PILE
23 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictBAYSIDE FIRE
21 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTillamook DistrictTRESLE FIRE
21 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictCONSTRUCTION BURN
18 September 2004Naturalunder an acreTillamook DistrictSITKA LIGHTNING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tillamook County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Nehalem: 12 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mohler Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Neahkahnie Mtn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nehalem QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Old Nehalem QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 442Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pit 443Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sturm PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tillamook County

Storms near this place

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nehalem in 14 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 11 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2006FloodNehalem$1,000,000The Nehalem River near Foss crested at 19.8 feet on November 7th, with flood stage at 13.5 feet.
December 2015FloodNehalem$241,000The Wilson River near Tillamook, The Trask River near Tillamook, and The Nehalem River near Foss exceeded flood stage. high water from these rivers resulted in the closure of several roads including Highway 101.
December 2015Heavy RainNehalem$220,000Heavy rain resulted in urban flooding and several landslides throughout Tillamook County.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindNehalem$24,000Thunderstorms and lightning damaged four homes in Nehalem Bay. The homes sustained shingle damage from lightning. One home was heavily damaged with one wall and window blown out.
November 2025Thunderstorm WindNehalem-Mesonet station PC441 1080 measured a peak wind gusts of 60 mph at 1300 on Nov 5th coinciding with the passage of the Severe Thunderstorm.
February 2022FloodNehalem-Measured 3 to 6 inches of rainfall. Minor flooding occurred along the Nehalem River near Foss. No damages were reported.
March 2012FloodNehalem-Heavy rain caused the Nehalem River near Foss, Oregon to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Nehalem River crested at 14.9 feet on March 30th at 11 am PDT, 0.9 feet above flood stage.
March 2012FloodNehalem-Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff causing the Nehalem River near Foss, Oregon to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Nehalem River crested at 15.5 feet on March 15th at 5 pm PDT, 1.5 feet above flood stage.
November 2012FloodNehalem-Heavy rain resulted in the Nehalem River overflowing its banks and flooding surrounding low-level areas. The Nehalem River at Foss crested at 17.3 feet on November 19th at 3 pm 3.3 feet above flood stage.
January 2011FloodNehalem-Heavy rain that fell over the Coast Range combined with snowmelt runoff resulting in the flooding of the Nehalem River. The Nehalem River at Foss crested at 15.9 feet on January 16th at 19:06 PST.
January 2009FloodNehalem-Heavy rain caused the Nehalem river to rise above flood stage resulting in the closure of highway 101 through Nehalem.
January 2009FloodNehalem-Highway 101 in Nehalem was reported closed due to high water. Heavy rain that fell over the Coast Range combined with snowmelt runoff resulted in the flooding of the Nehalem River.
January 2006FloodNehalem-no account filed
January 2006FloodNehalem-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tillamook 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
Bayside Gardens1.2 miles17
Mohler1.9 miles16
Manzanita2.2 miles17
Wheeler2.3 miles17
Neahkahnie2.4 miles17
Wheeler Heights2.4 miles17
Neahkahnie Beach2.6 miles17
Brighton3.6 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 NehalemAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2379768The 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 1136565. 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.