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At Siletz, the river receives Mill and Dewey creeks from the left. Following a series of meanders that carry it under Oregon Route 229 twice and almost completely around the city of Siletz, the river heads north, roughly parallel to Route 229, which runs near it all the way to Siletz Bay. In the next stretch, the river receives Tangerman ...
The Siletz River Volcanics, located in the Oregon Coast Range, United States, are a sequence of basaltic pillow lavas that make up part of Siletzia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The basaltic pillow lavas originally came from submarine volcanoes that existed during the Eocene .
The Siletz (pronounced SIGH-lets) were the southernmost of several divisions of the Tillamook people speaking a distinct dialect; the other dialect-divisions were: Salmon River on the Salmon River, Nestucca on Little Nestucca River, Nestucca River and Nestucca Bay, Tillamook Bay on the Tillamook Bay and the mouths of the Kilchis, Wilson, Trask and Tillamook rivers, and Nehalem on Nehalem River.
Siletz (/ s ɪ ˈ l ɛ t s / suh-LETS, Tolowa: sii-let-ts’i [5]) is a city in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,212 at the 2010 census . The city is located next to the Siletz Reservation and is the site of the annual Nesika Illahee Pow Wow in August.
There are 445 households in the city of Siletz and 143 households on the Siletz Reservation. The tribe owns and manages about 16,000 acres total, about 4,000-acre (16 km 2) of which is a reservation located along the Siletz River in the Central Oregon Coast Range of central Lincoln County, Oregon, approximately 15 mi (24 km) northeast of ...
Siletz/Nachicolcho: (pronounced SIGH-lets): their name "Siletz" comes from the name of the Siletz River and Siletz Bay on which they lived; their own name is given as Se-la-gees ("[People on the] crooked river"), their name for the Siletz River is given as Nshlæch'/Nshlæts ("crooked river") or Nach'ikáltzu ("quiet river"), therefore their ...
The Grays River Volcanics of Washington and Tillamook Volcanics of Oregon are now considered post-Siletz.) [11] Elsewhere Siletzia is covered by younger volcanic and sedimentary deposits. The discovery of Siletzia began in 1906 with Arnold's description and naming of a small exposure on the north side of the Olympic Peninsula near Port Crescent ...
From there, it continues north, generally following the course of the river downstream (and crossing it several times), eventually turning west and heading towards the Pacific Ocean. Close to the end of the road is the historic town of Kernville ; shortly after, OR 229 ends at an intersection with U.S. Route 101 , located between Lincoln City ...