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The term Oregon's Bay Area refers to the Greater Coos Bay-North Bend-Charleston Area; a 27.71 square mile community located on the Coos Bay Peninsula in Southwest Oregon. Oregon's Bay Area (also called the Coos Bay Micropolitan Statistical Area) has a total urban population of 31,995 (2017), and a MSA population of 64,709 (2012).
Georgia Power is the largest of the four electric utilities that are owned and operated by Southern Company. Georgia Power is an investor-owned, tax-paying public utility that serves more than 2.4 million customers in all but four of Georgia's 159 counties. [4] It employs approximately 9,000 workers throughout the state. The Georgia Power ...
On July 10, 2003, NW Natural Gas Company and Coos County broke ground for the county's natural gas transmission line and NW Natural's local distribution system in Coos Bay. [ 14 ] In 2005, the company began removing tar from the site of a former plant that had polluted the Willamette River [ 15 ] and were later fined for actions related to that ...
The city’s annual Winter Wonderland Festival — which offers a bevy of vendors, over 1 million Christmas lights, ice-skating and a chance to meet Santa — attracted about 36,000 people over ...
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Although exploration and trapping in the area occurred as early as 1828, the first European-American settlement was established at Empire City in 1853 by members of the Coos Bay Company; this is now part of the city of Coos Bay. Coos County was created by the Territorial Legislature from parts of Umpqua, and Jackson counties on December 22, 1853.
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Annually, Coos Bay is estimated to discharge 2.2 million acre-feet of fresh water, with a yearly maximum of 3,044,000 ac-ft and a minimum of 1,560,000 ac-ft, based on extrapolations of fresh water inflow measured at the West Fork of the Millicoma River mouth in 1974. [16]