The 1948 NOAA Chart #6152, "Columbia River, Harrington Point to Crims Island", however shows both the "Miller Sands" with a "Snag Island Jetty" to the south.

The 1955 U.S. Geological Survey's "Svensen Quadrangle" (1:62,500) shows "Miller Sands" being just north of the "Snag Islands" and the "Snag Island Jetty".

In 1959 the U.S. Board of Geographic Names made "Miller Sands" the official name.

"The principal value of the tide lands on the Columbia river lies in their desirability as seining grounds for taking the Columbia river or Chinook salmon. Formerly most of the fishing was by the gillnet method, the fishermen going out in their boats to a favorable place in the river, then putting out their nets, and making what is called a drift, that is floating or drifting with the current for a certain distance, but of late years, taking the salmon with seines has been found to be very profitable and tide lands where favorably situated are in demand for this purpose. In 1888 I surveyed a tract of tide land in this county on the upper end of what is known as Wallace's island, lying in the Columbia river, for F.M. Warren, one of the cannery men of the river. The greater part of this land had been formed during the June freshets of a few years previous. The state board executed a deed to him for the land; the next spring he put his seines to work on it, and his profits that year from the salmon caught were $20,000. Farther down the river are what are known as the "Tenesillahee" sands, about three miles in length and about 350 to 400 feet in width, owned by Fitzpatrick. Six years ago his seines gathered in 240 tons of salmon worth $80 per ton on the ground; three years ago on the same place he got nearly 400 tons. A short distance below are the "Miller's" sands, a strip of tide land about three miles in length, and nearly opposite are the "Middle" sands, all tide lands and valuable for salmon fishing." Source:    A.B. Little, Surveyor, St. Helens, Oregon, 1882, "Tide Lands", IN: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention of the Iowa Society of Civil Engineers and Surveyors, held at Burlington, Iowa, December 29 and 30, 1891, published by the Daily Republican Printing and Binding House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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"Miller Sands, an island complex in the upper Columbia River estuary, up-stream from the City of Astoria (OR), is largely derived from dredged material. Three distinct habitat types are recognized: a large vegetated upland island formed prior to 1940; an elongated barren sand spit formed primarily since 1970; and a protected cove between the island and the spit. Currently, over 100 pairs of glaucous-winged/western gulls nest at the western tip of Miller Sands Spit. Several hundred pairs of ring-billed gulls formerly nested on Miller Sands Spit, but this species has not nested on the island in recent years. The first documented nesting by Caspian terns on Miller Sands Spit occurred in 1998 (17 breeding pairs), following efforts to attract terns to nest there using decoys and sound systems; Caspian tern attraction efforts were discontinued in 1999 and terns have not nested at the site since. Experimental attempts to attract double-crested cormorants to nest on Miller Sands Spit resulted in formation of a small cormorant nesting colony at the western tip of Miller Sands Spit during 2005-2007; about 90 breeding pairs successfully nested at the site in 2007. These social attraction experiments were completed in 2007 and cormroants have not nested at this site since." Source:    "Bird Research Northwest" website, 2019.