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Pacific County, Washington

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

20historic places

—earliest paper

1851formed

23,365pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 20 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near South Bend, Raymond, Ilwaco.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Washington is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Pacific titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

15 of 20 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

20 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cape Disappointment Historic District	Ilwaco	District	1975
Chinook Point NHL	Chinook	Site	1966
Colbert House	Ilwaco	Building	1977
Columbia River Quarantine Station	Knappton	Building	1980
Fort Columbia	Chinook	District	2025
Klipsan Beach Life Saving Station	Klipsan Beach	Building	1979
Lumber Exchange Building	South Bend	Building	1988
Oysterville Historic District	Oysterville	District	1976
Pacific County Courthouse	South Bend	Building	1977
Raymond Public Library	Raymond	Building	1979
Raymond Theater	Raymond	Building	1991
Russell House	South Bend	Building	1977
Schulderman, Peter, House	Seaview	Building	1988
Shelburne Hotel	Seaview	Building	1978
Shogren Cottage	Ocean Park	Building	2019
South Bend Carnegie Public Library	South Bend	Building	1982
Tokeland Hotel	Tokeland	Building	1978
US Post Office-Raymond Main	Raymond	Building	1991
Willapa Bay Boathouse	Tokeland	Building	1986
Wreckage, The	Ocean Park	Building	1979

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Pacific was formed in 1851 (1851-02-03) from Lewis.

PACIFIC created by Oregon Territory from LEWIS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Pacific County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
420	1,645	5,983	14,891	15,928	16,558	14,674	17,237	20,984	23,365

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park	Park unit	42.0 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

5 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Fern Hill Cemetery	46.6339	-123.66087
Ilwaco Cemetery	46.31822	-124.02313
Lone Fir Cemetery	46.36238	-124.01769
Peaceful Hill Cemetery	46.36782	-123.80074
Washington Cemetery	46.69988	-123.73309

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Pacific City	46.28371	-124.05543
Seahaven	46.6876	-123.82266
Seaport	46.59621	-123.95433

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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