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Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge on Oregon's coast. It is one of six National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) comprising the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex. [2] The refuge consists of several discontinuous tracts north and south of the Siletz River where it enters Siletz Bay south of Lincoln City. [3]
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 ...
Drift Creek is a tributary, about 18 miles (29 km) long, of Siletz Bay in the U.S. state of Oregon. [3] The creek begins near Stott Mountain in the Central Oregon Coast Range in Lincoln County and follows a winding course generally west through the Siuslaw National Forest to enter the bay south of Lincoln City on the Pacific Ocean.
Kernville is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. It is located near the intersection of U.S. Route 101 and Oregon Route 229, where the Siletz River enters Siletz Bay. There are two communities, known as "old" and "new" Kernville, in close proximity. Old Kernville is considered a ghost town. [2]
The Siletz Reef is a large and shallow reef, just offshore the central coast of Oregon. [1] It runs about 1 mile (1.6 km) mile offshore from a southern boundary off Depoe Bay, though some references have it going as far south as Cape Perpetua [1] to a northern boundary off Lincoln City, Oregon, [2] though a northern boundary of Cascade Head is in some references. [3]
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.
Oregon Route 229 is an Oregon state highway that runs along the lower reaches of the Siletz River, on the central Oregon coast. The highway is also known as the Siletz Highway No. 181 (see Oregon highways and routes ).
The Siletz Reservation is a 5.852 sq mi (15.157 km 2) Indian reservation in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, owned by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.The reservation is made up of numerous non-contiguous parcels of land in east-central Lincoln County, mostly east of the city of Siletz, between it and the Polk County line.