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Nehalem / n iː ˈ h eɪ l ə m / [6] is a city in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. Incorporated in 1889, the city lies along the Nehalem River and Nehalem Bay near the Pacific Ocean . It is bisected by U.S. Route 101 .
The indigenous Tillamook people lived along the Oregon coast, including the Manzanita area (tidewaters of the Nehalem Bay), for about 12,000 years. They suffered from smallpox and other illnesses brought by white settlers, and the few remaining Tillamook people were relocated to the Siletz and Grand Ronde reservations in the 1850s.
The Nehalem River is a river on the Pacific coast of northwest Oregon in the United States, approximately 119 miles (192 km) long.It drains part of the Northern Oregon Coast Range northwest of Portland, originating on the east side of the mountains and flowing in a loop around the north end of the range near the mouth of the Columbia River.
It is Oregon's fifth-largest estuary. [1] The main tributary of Nehalem Bay is the Nehalem River. Nehalem Bay drains an area of more than 850 square miles. [2] Sunset over the bay in February 2010. The city of Nehalem (pop. 271 in 2010) is situated on US Highway 101 north of Garibaldi and south of Cannon Beach. [3]
The Tillamook are a Native American tribe from coastal Oregon of the Salish linguistic group. The name "Tillamook" is a Chinook language term meaning "people of [the village] Nekelim (or Nehalem)", [1] sometimes it is given as a Coast Salish term, meaning "Land of Many Waters".
Nehalem Bay State Park is a state park in the United States located on the Oregon Coast, near the communities of Nehalem and Manzanita on the Nehalem Spit, a sand spit west of Nehalem Bay. [ 2 ] Tillamook County transferred the land to the State of Oregon for a park in the 1930s.
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Nehalem Bay, a bay in Tillamook County; Nehalem Bay State Airport, an airport near Nehalem Bay; Nehalem Bay State Park, a state park which includes Nehalem Spit and Nehalem Beach; Nehalem Highway, a state highway; Nehalem, Oregon, a city in Tillamook County; Nehalem River, a river