Clatsop Spit is an unusually large sand spit on the Pacific coast along U.S. Route 101 between Astoria and the north end of Tillamook Head in Clatsop County, northwest Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia River. The Clatsop Spit was formed by sediment brought to the coast by the Columbia River after the last ice age ended and the ocean level rose approximately 8,500 years ago. Here it was worked over and shaped by the wind and the waves until a vast and sandy plain was formed.[1]
In regular conversation, referring to Clatsop Spit usually refers to the northern end of the spit: the area that is bound by the Pacific to the west and the Columbia River to the northeast. In the past, the spit was known as Clatsop Sands.[2]
^David D. Alt; Donald W. Hyndman (2004). Roadside Geology of Oregon (18th ed.). Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company. pp. 82–85. ISBN 0-87842-063-0.
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feet (13 m) deep. The ClatsopSpit juts into the ocean on the south side of the river mouth, and on the north side is Peacock Spit, named after the USS...
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saving the life of fellow Coast Guard sailor, Richard O. Bracken, off ClatsopSpit, near the treacherous Columbia River bar, would be the namesake of the...
in The Blitz during World War II, the skull was eventually sent to the Clatsop County Historical Society in Astoria in 1953, and then to the Smithsonian...
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1805–1806, as well as the nearby Peter Iredale which was grounded on the ClatsopSpit 100 years later in September 1906. However, over one hundred and eighteen–one...
with 52 people and a cargo of largely farm goods aboard. After crossing ClatsopSpit, she encountered heavy weather and began taking on water. On the morning...
The Lewis and Clark National Historical Park (including the former Fort Clatsop National Memorial), located in the vicinity of the mouth of the Columbia...
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sandbar, shoal, spit)". Perhaps the best known is the Columbia Bar system which consists of several bars, including Peacock Spit and ClatsopSpit outside the...
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