CLATSKANIE RIVER

The 'Clatskanie River' is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately 25 mi (40 km) long, in northwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains a timber-producing area in the foothills of the Northern Oregon Coast Range NNW of Portland.
It rises in eastern Columbia County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) west of St. Helens on the northern slopes of Bunker Hill. Major tributaries include Carcus Creek and the North Fork of the Clatskanie which converge at Swedetown. The North Fork rises at Apiary. It flows generally NNW through the Clatsop State Forest, past Clatskanie. The Clatskanie River is converges with Conyers Creek and Beaver Creek near the City of Clatskanie and then it enters a slough on the Columbia from the south approximately 5 mi (8 km) east of Westport.
The river is named for the Tlatskanai, an Athabascan tribe of Native Americans who lived in the valley of the nearby Nehalem River at the time of the arrival of Europeans in the early 19th century.

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★ Clatskanie History