Wallooskee River
title: "Wallooskee River" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["rivers-of-oregon", "rivers-of-clatsop-county,-oregon", "oregon-placenames-of-native-american-origin"] topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallooskee_River" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Wallooskee River |
| name_etymology | Wallooska, who in 1851 was the sole surviving member of a small band of Chinookan Indians who lived nearby |
| image_size | 300 |
| map_size | 300 |
| pushpin_map | USA Oregon |
| pushpin_map_size | 300 |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location of the mouth of the Wallooskee River in Oregon |
| subdivision_type1 | Country |
| subdivision_name1 | United States |
| subdivision_type2 | State |
| subdivision_name2 | Oregon |
| subdivision_type4 | County |
| subdivision_name4 | Clatsop County |
| length | 10 mi |
| source1 | Northern Oregon Coast Range |
| source1_location | Clatsop County, Oregon |
| source1_coordinates | |
| source1_elevation | 886 ft |
| mouth | Youngs River |
| mouth_location | near Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon |
| mouth_coordinates | |
| mouth_elevation | 3 ft |
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The Wallooskee River (also known as the Walluski River) is a tributary of the Youngs River, about 10 mi long, in northwest Oregon in the United States. It drains a small area of the foothills of the Coast Range near the mouth of the Columbia River. The Youngs River is a tributary of the Columbia River.
It rises southwest of Astoria in a northern Clatsop County at . It flows generally west in a winding course. About a mile (1.6 km) before its mouth, it receives the Little Wallooskee River from the right at which flows about 2 mi from its source at . The Wallooskee enters Youngs River from the east at the south end of Youngs Bay, approximately 2 mi south of Astoria.
Walluski
The name of the river was formerly spelled "Walluski" but the Board on Geographic Names changed it to "Wallooskee" in 1975. Although there is not a formal settlement by the name of Walluski, Oregon, the Olney-Walluski area is considered a community by local residents and the Walluski area was a census precinct as recently as 1950. As of 1892, there was a Walluski School. The school was located near Oregon State University's John Jacob Astor Agricultural Experiment Station, that was later used as the Clatsop Community College farm and today is the site of the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.
There is also a Walluski soil series named for the area.
References
References
- McArthur, Lewis A.. (2003). "Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition". Oregon Historical Society Press.
- (November 28, 1980). "Wallooskee River". United States Geological Survey.
- Source elevation derived from [[Google Earth]] search using GNIS source coordinates.
- "Olney Walluski Fire & Rescue". Astoria Dispatch 911.
- "Population of Counties by Minor Civil Divisions". [[United States Census Bureau]].
- Cleveland, Alfred A.. (March 1903). "Educational History of Astoria". [[Oregon Historical Society]].
- (September 25, 1921). "Walluski School Burns". [[The Sunday Oregonian]].
- "About". Clatsop County Fair & Expo Center.
- (November 16, 2014). "Walluski Series". [[National Cooperative Soil Survey]].
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