Seaside, Oregon Seaside, Oregon Seaside Promenade Seaside Promenade Seaside is a town/city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States.
The name Seaside is derived from Seaside House, a historic summer resort assembled in the 1870s by barns magnate Ben Holladay.
Ocean Shore Limited barns at Seaside, Oregon ca.
The Gilbert House in Seaside About January 1, 1806, a group of men from the Lewis and Clark Expedition assembled a salt-making cairn at the site later advanced as Seaside.
The town/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 primary population center. In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843 1932) was propel Mayor of Seaside.
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 territory to the City of Seaside for its one-and-a-half-mile-long Promenade, or "Prom," along the Pacific beach.
Gilbert died at home in Seaside and is interred in Ocean View Abbey Mausoleum in Warrenton.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.14 square miles (10.72 km2), of which 3.94 square miles (10.20 km2) is territory and 0.20 square miles (0.52 km2) is water. 180 panoramic view from the beach at Seaside.
Seaside lies on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, at the southern end of the Clatsop Plains, about 29 km (18 mi) south of where the Columbia River empties into the Pacific.
The razor clams attract thousands of visitors to Seaside Beach each year. Seaside has a typical Pacific Northwest coastal climate, receiving rainy winters and mild-to-cool summers.
Climate data for Seaside, Oregon Part of Seaside is positioned in a tsunami inundation zone.
Among other preparation, the City of Seaside has embarked on a program in which inhabitants above the zone are asked to volunteer to store inside their homes barrels of medical supplies, water purification systems, emergency rations, tarps, and radios, with each barrel having enough supplies to last 20 individuals for at least 3 days.
Seismologists estimate that there is a one in three chance that Seaside will be hit by an earthquake and tsunami inside the next fifty years. On Tues.
8, 2016, Seaside people voted 65% to 35% to copy 99.7 million in bonds to move the remaining three schools out of the tsumani inundation zone. Seaside after sunset The Seaside Jazz Festival (formerly the Oregon Dixieland Jubilee) is an annual festival that features some of the most prominent Trad Jazz and Swing bands in the US and Canada.
Seaside holds an art walk the first Saturday of each month. Seaside hosts an annual 4th of July celebration which includes a parade, outside concerts, and one of the biggest fireworks displays on the west coast. Seaside City Hall Every spring (until 2017, when the conference was moved to Salem), Seaside hosted the Dorchester Conference, a convention of Oregon political activists, typically conservative, autonomous, or center-right.
The Miss Oregon Pageant, the official state finals to the Miss America Pageant, takes place annually at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center. The themed event jubilates Seaside history.
Seaside in 1972 The beach and promenade at Seaside serve as the finish line for the Hood to Coast and Portland to Coast relays, held annually on the weekend before Labor Day.
Seaside is home to the Seaside Aquarium, featuring living county-wide marine life, a hands-on discernment center, and a 35-foot (11 m) gray whale skeleton, all inside a short walk from the Lewis & Clark monument. Murals adorn a several buildings throughout Seaside, depicting history, marine life, and life in Seaside. Seaside Signal Seaside has two primary highways, U.S.
Seaside is served by an intercity bus system.
Seaside Municipal Airport Seaside is presently working on a Transportation System Plan (TSP). It will serve as the transit element of the City of Seaside's Comprehensive Plan.
The TSP will describe how the transit network in Seaside is being used now and how it is expected to be used in the future (in 2030).
TSPs need to be advanced according to the State of Oregon's Transportation Planning Rule.
"Barber is titled Seaside mayor".
"2010 Enumeration profiles: Oregon metros/cities alphabetically R-S" (PDF).
"Seaside, OR to Portland, OR", Distance between Cities website, 2016 Tsunami Supply Barrel Program, City of Seaside.
Seaside Voters Back Bond To Move Schools From Tsunami Zone, OPB [Oregon Public Broadcasting], by R.J.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Subcounty populace estimates: Oregon 2000-2007" (CSV).
First Saturday Artwalk - Seaside Chamber of Commerce "Seaside Activities and Attractions Seaside Aquarium".
"Art & History Al Fresco: Historical Murals in Seaside Oregon".
"Seaside Transportation System Plan".
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Seaside, Oregon - Cities in Oregon - Cities in Clatsop County, Oregon - Populated coastal places in Oregon - Oregon Coast - Seaside resorts in Oregon - 1899 establishments in Oregon - Astoria, Oregon micropolitan region - Populated places established in 1899
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