Lincoln County County
With miles of beach and coastline, Lincoln County is one of the most popular visitor destinations on the Oregon Coast. Named for President Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln County was created by the Oregon Legislature in 1893.
Mapped Location
Lincoln County: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Lincoln County
- Feature Type: County
- County Seat: City of Newport
- Established: Monday, February 20, 1893
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Lincoln County
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Lincoln County | Official |
Related Catalog Titles
A Bibliography for Lincoln County, County
Pioneer history of North Lincoln County, Oregon Volume III, January 2001 by Mildred Harmon Salazar (Composer)
Compiled and edited by Mildred Harmon Salazar, Pioneer History of North Lincoln County, Oregon, Volume III preserves the oral traditions, genealogical records, and firsthand accounts of the early homesteaders, loggers, and coastal traders who settled Oregon's rugged central coast. The volume details the immense challenges of carving out a living amid dense coastal forests, treacherous bar crossings, and geographic isolation before the arrival of modern highways. Through collected memoirs, family trees, and vintage photographs, the text captures the gritty everyday realities of building community infrastructure along a dramatic and unforgiving shoreline. A keen insight drawn from the work is how community-compiled pioneer histories serve as vital grassroots archives that rescue ordinary working lives from historical obscurity; by gathering stories directly from aging settlers, the volume reveals that the true foundation of coastal development was built not by corporate industrialists, but by the quiet, unyielding persistence of families adapting to an untamed maritime frontier.
x, 212 pages : illustrations
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The land that kept its promise a history of South Lincoln County by Marjorie H. Hays
Some history of early steamboating on Yaquina Bay by Jack Fogarty
Lincoln County Historical Society, Publication No. 5, Newport, Oregon 1956
19 pages illustrations 21 cm
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Pioneer history of North Lincoln County, Oregon Volume I, November 1951 by Earl Nelson (Composer), Ben Hur Lampman , Earl M. Nelson , North Lincoln Pioneer and Historical Association (Or)
Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua) an illustrative sketch by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg, Franz Boas, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
Co-authored by anthropologists Leo Joachim Frachtenberg and Franz Boas under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua): An Illustrative Sketch provides a rigorous grammatical analysis of a severely endangered language native to the central Oregon coast. Published as part of Boas’s monumental Handbook of American Indian Languages, the monograph meticulously diagrams the phonetics, morphology, and complex verbal structures of the Siuslaw and Lower Umpqua dialects. By documenting these intricate linguistic mechanics directly from a dwindling number of fluent elders, the researchers created an invaluable, highly technical repository of a coastal culture that had been systematically fractured by pioneer settlement and forced relocations to the Siletz Reservation. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the federal sponsorship of "salvage anthropology" created a profound institutional hypocrisy; by utilizing the Bureau of American Ethnology to painstakingly catalog the structural brilliance of the Siuslaw language, the United States government funded the academic preservation of Indigenous intellectual heritage while simultaneously enforcing the devastating assimilation policies that actively drove these very languages to the brink of extinction.
pages 433-629 ; 25 cm.
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Coos, an illustrative sketch by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg, Franz Boas
Co-authored by pioneering anthropologists Leo Joachim Frachtenberg and Franz Boas, Coos, an Illustrative Sketch provides a rigorous, structural analysis of the severely endangered Hanis Coos language native to the southern Oregon coast. Published as part of Boas’s monumental initiative to map North American Indigenous linguistics, the text meticulously breaks down the complex phonology, morphology, and syntactic architecture of a tribal language heavily decimated by forced relocation and settler encroachment. By formally diagramming these intricate grammatical rules directly from the region's last fluent speakers, the authors produced a vital ethnographic artifact that preserved the mechanical brilliance of coastal oral traditions. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the rigorous application of Boasian linguistics functioned as a subtle but powerful critique of pioneer-era racial hierarchies; by scientifically demonstrating that the Coos language possessed a structural logic and grammatical complexity equal to or surpassing European tongues, the text implicitly dismantled the self-serving settler myth that the region's Indigenous populations were culturally or intellectually primitive.
1 preliminary leaf, pages 297-429. 25 cm
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Lower Umpqua texts and notes on the Kusan dialects by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg
Authored by early 20th-century anthropologist Leo Joachim Frachtenberg, Lower Umpqua Texts and Notes on the Kusan Dialects serves as a vital linguistic archive of the highly endangered Indigenous languages of the southern Oregon coast. Operating within the frantic era of "salvage anthropology," Frachtenberg meticulously transcribed the complex grammatical structures, mythologies, and oral histories of the Lower Umpqua and Coos peoples directly from some of their very last fluent speakers. The resulting volume operates as both a dense academic lexicon and a poignant cultural artifact of coastal tribal communities whose societal structures were systematically dismantled by pioneer encroachment. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the foundational premise of salvage anthropology reveals a devastating colonial paradox; by urgently cataloging these complex Indigenous dialects as dying academic curiosities, researchers like Frachtenberg unwittingly produced an empirical ledger detailing the lethal efficiency of America's own aggressive policies of forced displacement and cultural erasure.
vi, 156 pages ; 25 cm.
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Lincoln County
- Agate Beach
- Alsea Rivera
- Bayshore
- Bayview
- Bellamy (historical)
- Beverly Beach
- Burnt Woods
- Chitwood
- Coronado Shores
- Denzer (historical)
- City of Depoe Bay
- Drift Creek
- Eddyville
- Elk City
- Euclid (historical)
- Fisher
- Forfar
- Four Cabin Corner
- Fruitvale
- Glen (historical)
- Gleneden Beach
- Harlan
- Holiday Beach
- Kernville
- Lincoln Beach
- City of Lincoln City
- Linville (historical)
- Little Albany
- Little Elk (historical)
- Little Switzerland
- Logsden
- Morrison (historical)
- Nashville
- Neotsu
- City of Newport
- Newport Heights
- Nortons
- Ocean Park
- Ona
- Otis
- Otter Rock
- Oysterville
- Pacific Palisades
- Pioneer
- Pioneer City (historical)
- Roads End
- Rose Lodge
- Salishan
- Salishan Beach
- San Marine
- Seal Rock
- City of Siletz
- South Beach
- Sunnyridge
- Three Rocks
- Tidewater
- Tillicum Beach
- City of Toledo
- Wakonda Beach
- City of Waldport
- Westwood Village
- City of Yachats
- Yaquina
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Last updated: 2013-01-08