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Country
  
United States

County
  
Clatsop

ZIP code
  
97016

Area
  
172 ha

Local time
  
Saturday 6:13 AM

State
  
Oregon

Time zone
  
Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)

Area code(s)
  
503 and 971

Population
  
321 (2010)

Westport, Oregon

Weather
  
9°C, Wind E at 2 km/h, 90% Humidity

Westport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on the Columbia River in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 321.

Map of Westport, OR 97016, USA

Westport is connected to Cathlamet, Washington, across the river via the Wahkiakum County Ferry to Puget Island. U.S. Route 30 passes through the community, connecting it to Astoria to the west and Clatskanie to the east.

Westport is named after "Captain" John West, a millwright and lumberman who settled in the area in the early 1850s. West was a native of Scotland, emigrated to Canada as a young man where he worked in a sawmill on the St. Lawrence River and then came to Oregon via California during the gold rush of 1849. West ran a sawmill and a salmon cannery in the community. The Westport post office was established in 1863 with West was its first postmaster.

References

Westport, Oregon Wikipedia


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