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North Bend is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States with a population of 9,695 as of the 2010 census. [6] [7] North Bend is surrounded on three sides by Coos Bay, an S-shaped water inlet and estuary where the Coos River enters Coos Bay and borders the city of Coos Bay to the south. North Bend became an incorporated city in 1903. [7]
In their final season, the 1972 Coos Bay–North Bend A's finished 3rd in the Northwest League South Division and 5th overall. Managed by Grover Resinger, the A's finished 33–45. In their final season at North Bend Municipal Park, the Coos Bay–North Bend A's' season attendance was 10,220 an average of 262, last in the Northwest League. [10 ...
North Bend: This archaeological site associated with the Coquille people is the largest known complex of fishing weirs on the Oregon coast, encompassing over 3000 identified wooden weir stakes organized into 25 discrete weir features.
It was the costliest of the Oregon Coast bridges at $2.14 million (equivalent to approximately $35 million in 2012 [3]). Because the five largest bridges on the coastal route were so expensive, their construction was largely funded by the Public Works Administration. The North Bend Bridge was dedicated to its designer, Conde McCullough, in 1947 ...
Big Bend Community College: Moses Lake, Washington: 1962 Public [a] 5,400 Vikings ? Eastern Blue Mountain Community College: Pendleton, Oregon: 1962 Public [b] 10,600 Timberwolves 1983 [c] Eastern Centralia College: Centralia, Washington: 1925 Public [a] 4,803 Trailblazers 1946 [d] Western Chemeketa Community College: Salem, Oregon: 1969 Public ...
The North Bend/Coos Bay Airport opened in 1932. The U.S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, North Bend was started in 1936 and commissioned on May 10, 1943. The airport was transferred to the City of North Bend in 1947 as military surplus property. The first airline flights were West Coast DC-3s in 1947; successor Hughes Airwest pulled out in 1979.
Louis Jerome Simpson (1 September 1877 – 17 January 1949) was an American shipping and timber magnate and the founder [citation needed] of North Bend, Oregon. He also ran unsuccessfully for governor of Oregon in 1918. [1] Simpson dropped out of the University of California in 1897 to run his father's ship fleet and lumber mills on Coos Bay.
The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is located on the Oregon Coast, stretching approximately 40 miles (64 km) north of the Coos River in North Bend to the Siuslaw River in Florence, and adjoining Honeyman State Park on the west. It is part of Siuslaw National Forest and is administered by the United States Forest Service.