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41-03150 [5] GNIS feature ID. 2409744 [3] Website. www.astoria.or.us. Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. [6]
The entrance and sign of the station. Air Station Port Angeles is the US Coast Guard 's oldest operational air station, in operation since 1935 and today supports three MH-65E Dolphin helicopters, [4] which have been operating at the station since 1984. This air station is well placed as Port Angeles is a port city with ferries to Canada.
53-55855. GNIS feature ID. 1524589 [4] Website. www.cityofpt.us. Port Townsend / ˈtaʊnzənd / is a city on the Quimper Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,148 at the 2020 United States Census. It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County.
Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805–1806. Located along the Lewis and Clark River at the north end of the Clatsop Plains approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Astoria, the fort was the last encampment of the Corps of Discovery, before embarking on their return trip east to ...
The Seattle Fire Department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. The department is responsible for an area of 142.5 square miles (369 km 2), including 193 miles (311 km) of waterfront, with a population of 713,700. There is a total of 1,065 employees with 981 uniformed ...
In 1876 the Tongue Point Light became operational. In 1939 Tongue Point Coast Guard Station became a buoy tender port. On 14 August 1964 Coast Guard Air Station Astoria was established at Tongue Point Naval Air Station, with a crew of 10 officers and 22 enlisted men. [11] Two Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard helicopters were assigned to the station.
Ediz Hook is a three-mile-long sand spit that juts north and east into the Strait of Juan de Fuca and forms the natural harbor at Port Angeles. Private operators built navigational warning fires on the spit as early as 1861. [1] The first Ediz Hook lighthouse was built near the tip of the spit [2] in 1865. It was a two-story, schoolhouse-type ...
This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.