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Clifton, Clatsop County, Oregon

Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States

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name	Clifton, Oregon
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
pushpin_map	USA Oregon#USA
pushpin_label	Clifton
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pushpin_map_caption	Location within the state of Oregon
map_caption	Location within Clatsop county
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Oregon
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Clatsop
leader_title
timezone	Pacific (PST)
utc_offset	-8
timezone_DST	PDT
utc_offset_DST	-7
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft	10
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postal_code_type	ZIP codes
blank_name	GNIS feature ID
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Clifton is an unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. It is on Clifton Channel across from Tenasillahe Island.

History

Henry Harrison Hunt, an Oregon Trail pioneer of 1843, established a sawmill in the Clifton area in 1845. By 1851 Hunt had moved on. In 1873 brothers James W. and Vincent Cook, pioneers of the Pacific Northwest salmon packing industry, established the second salmon cannery in Clatsop County there. It is likely that settler Stephen G. Spear named his farm Clifton after the cliffs above the river before the land was owned by the Cook brothers.

The cannery employed Chinese workers, who canned the fish caught by Greek, Yugoslav, and Italian fishermen. The dance hall burned down in 1921. Clifton was not connected to U.S. 30 by road until 1937. Instead, to leave town people either boated across the Columbia to Cathlamet, Washington, or took the train to Astoria or Portland. In the early 20th century, there were five logging camps within three miles of Clifton and when the camps closed the loggers would move into town. By 1930 all logging activity in the area had ceased. Today Clifton is on the edge of the Clatsop State Forest. Electricity did not reach Clifton until 1958.

Decline

Author Ralph Friedman considers Clifton a "picturesque ghost town". There was renewed interest in the area in the early 2000s because of the proposed Bradwood Landing project.

References

{{GNIS. 1119023
(2008). "Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer". [[DeLorme]].
Flora, Stephenie. "Emigrants to Oregon in 1843". oregonpioneers.com.
Friedman, Ralph. (2002). "The Other Side of Oregon". [[Caxton Press (United States).
Friedman, Ralph. (1990). "In Search of Western Oregon". [[Caxton Press (United States).
{{Cite OGN. 7th
"James W. Cook House".
"Clatsop County Historical Society: Chronology of Clatsop County History". Cumtux.org.
"Lewis & Clark Explorer & the P&W Astoria Line". Abandoned Railroads of the Pacific Northwest.
Friedman, Ralph. (1978). "Tracking Down Oregon". [[Caxton Press (United States).

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