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Marina at Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
Mount Adams, Washington, is in the distance.
Image taken August 29, 2004.
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Scappoose Bay ...
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Scappoose Bay is a side channel to the Multnomah Channel, and enters approximately one mile upstream of the channel's merging with the Columbia River, at the location of
St. Helens, Oregon. The community of Scappoose, Oregon, lies on South Scappoose Creek (a tributary of Scappoose Bay) just upstream of the confluence of North Scappoose Creek and South Scappoose Creek.
The Scappoose Bay watershed drains approximately 85,000 acres. Major streams include the North and South Scappoose Creeks, Milton Creek and McNulty Creek, in addition to numerous smaller creeks and tributaries. The creeks drain directly into Scappoose Bay, a low gradient tidal estuary adjacent to Multnomah Channel and
Sauvie Island National Wildlife Area.
The combination of high gradient forested watershed and low gradient estuary provide excellent habitat for all life stages of several salmonid species. North Scappoose, South Scappoose, Milton, Raymond, Sierkes, and Fall creeks are designated Essential Salmon Habitat Areas by the State of Oregon.
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Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
View from marina.
Image taken August 29, 2004.
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Wreck at Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
View from marina.
Image taken August 29, 2004.
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Mount Adams from Scappoose Bay ...
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Great views of Mount Adams can be had from the Scappoose Bay Marina.
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Mount Adams, Washington, from marina at Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
Image taken August 29, 2004.
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Mount Adams, Washington, from marina at Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
Image taken August 29, 2004.
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Mount St. Helens from Scappoose Bay ...
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A good view of Mount St. Helens can be had from the turnoff to Scappoose Bay. The Oregon town of St. Helens, which was named after the Washington volcano, is located just downstream from Scappoose Bay and within the Scappoose Bay watershed.
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Scappoose Bay and Mount St. Helens, Washington.
View from just off of U.S. Highway 30, two miles south of St. Helens, Oregon. Scappoose Bay is to the right.
Image taken November 8, 2005.
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Mount St. Helens, Washington (slightly steaming), as seen from Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
View from just off of U.S. Highway 30, two miles south of St. Helens, Oregon. Scappoose Bay is to the right.
Image taken November 8, 2005.
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Mount St. Helens, Washington, from Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
View from just off of U.S. Highway 30, two miles south of St. Helens, Oregon. Scappoose Bay is to the right just out of view.
Image taken August 29, 2004.
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Marina at Scappoose Bay ...
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Marina at Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
Image taken August 31, 2003.
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Marina at Scappoose Bay, Oregon.
Image taken August 31, 2003.
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Scappoose, Oregon ...
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According to Oregon Geographic Names (McArthur and McArthur, 2003), the Scappoose Post Office was established April 25, 1872, after first being called Columbia Post Office. Samuel T. Gosa was the first postmaster of the Scappoose Office as well as the former Columbia Office. It's location was at a spot now known as Johnson Landing, some two miles southeast of today's Scappoose, Oregon. It was moved to the present community in 1886.
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Scappoose in 1940 ...
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From the Oregon State Archives "A 1940 Journey Across Oregon":
"... SCAPPOOSE (Ind. gravelly plain), 20.9 m. (56 alt., 248 pop.), is on the site of an old trading post and farm of the Hudson's Bay Company, under the charge of Thomas McKay. Chief Kazeno, mentioned in the annals of the Astorians and of many other later writers, had his village close by. It was here that the great Indian highway, later the Hudson's Bay trail between the Columbia River and the upper Willamette Valley, had its beginning. When Lieut. W. R. Broughton of the Royal Navy, visited the Columbia River in H. M. S. Chatham of Captain Vancouver's squadron in 1792, he found at Warrior Rock, on Wappato (Sauvie) Island opposite Scappoose, Indians with copper swords and iron battle axes. These Indians said that they had obtained these axes from the other Indians many moons to the eastward. Scappoose appears to have been a great trading center for the Indians on the lower Columbia during many centuries. The virulent disease which almost wiped out the Indians of the Sauvie Island region began among the Indians at Scappoose Bay and was attributed to "bad medicine" administered by Captain Dominis of the brig Owyhee, which had been trading in the river.
The first white man to settle on Scappoose Plain was James Bates, an American sailor, who probably deserted from the Owyhee in 1829. The town of Scappoose had a slow growth and was not incorporated until July 13, 1921. In 1934 fire destroyed several buildings. Today it is a trading center for a prosperous farming community with large potato warehouses and a pickle factory. ..."
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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