Clatsop County, Oregon Genealogy

United States Oregon  Clatsop County



County Courthouse
Clatsop County Courthouse 749 Commercial Street PO Box 178; Astoria, OR 97103 Phone: 503.325.8605 County Clerk has marriage and land records from 1860, divorce and court records from 1875 and probate records from 1880.

Records Held at the Courthouse

 * County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Clatsop County Court House as of October 2004.


 * Record Loss:

Quick Facts
Named for the Clatsop tribe of Native Americans.

Trivia Tidbits: Little biographic bits associated with the names of non-population localities.

Parent County
22 June 1844: Clatsop county was created from Twality County now Washington County.

Boundary Changes
15 December 1853: Part was taken off to create Tillamook County.

Cities
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Astoria | Cannon Beach | Gearhart | Seaside | Warrenton

Communities
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Brownsmead | Jewell | Knappa | Sunset Beach | Svensen | Wauna | Westport

Defunct Post Offices
Albert |

Neighboring counties
Columbia | Tillamook | Washington | Washington counties: Pacific | Wahkiakum

Trivia Tidbits
Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. &gt; Trivia Tidbits

Census

 * 1845 Transcription and Index
 * 1849 Transcription and Index
 * 1850
 * 1859 State Transcription and Index
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Rivers and Waterways
Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. &gt;&gt; Rivers and Waterways

Vital Records
The Family History Library has copies of some county records as following:

Clatsop County Coroner inquest transcriptions 1870-1901

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Astoria Oregon Family History Center
 * Seaside Oregon Family History Center

Websites

 * The Clatsop County GenWeb Project a member of The ORGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project (bakcup site)
 * Family History Library Catalog for Clatsop County.