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Website. www.ci.scappose.or.us. Scappoose / skæˈpuːs / is a city in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It was named for a nearby stream, which drains the southern part of the county. The name "Scappoose" is of Native American origin, and is said to mean "gravelly plain." [5] The population was 6,592 at the 2010 census .
August 17, 1981 [1] [2] The Portland and Southwestern Railroad Tunnel, also known as the Nehalem Divide Railroad Tunnel, is an abandoned railroad tunnel near Scappoose, Oregon, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The tunnel was driven by the Portland and Southwestern Railroad, whose chief business was ...
3 feet (0.91 m) [2] Scappoose Bay is a slough of Multnomah Channel, a distributary of the Willamette River, about 1 mile (1.6 km) upstream of where the channel meets the Columbia River in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It is surrounded by a broad wetland area full of small ponds and other waterways across from Sauvie Island.
The Peace Candle of the World, also known as the Scappoose Peace Candle, [1] is an approximately 50-foot-tall (15 m) tower-like structure 18 feet (5.5 m) in diameter [2] [3] in Scappoose, Oregon, designed to resemble a candle. It was built in 1971 outside what was then the Brock Candles Inc. factory, which burned down in 1990.
U.S. Route 30 ( US 30) in the U.S. state of Oregon is a major east–west United States Numbered Highway that runs from its western terminus in Astoria to the Idaho border east of Ontario. West of Portland, US 30 generally follows the southern shore of the Columbia River; east of Portland, the highway has largely been replaced with Interstate ...
The Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center, Research & Development, abbreviated as OMIC R&D, [1] is a research facility located in Scappoose, Oregon. OMIC R&D is a collaborative environment bringing together industry, higher education, and government in partnership to develop new tools, techniques, and technologies to address near-term ...
Map of Columbia County Geography. According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has an area of 688 square miles (1,780 km 2), of which 657 square miles (1,700 km 2) is land and 31 square miles (80 km 2) (4.5%) is water. It is Oregon's third-smallest county by land area and fourth-smallest by total area. Adjacent counties
100000618. Added to NRHP. January 31, 2017. The United States Post Office building in Scappoose, Oregon, is the current post office serving the local community (as of 2016) and a recognized historic structure. Built in 1966, it is an essentially intact example of the "Thousand Series" facilities [a] built under the direction of the Post Office ...