Oregon
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, United States. For statistical purposes, the
United States Census Bureau
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has defined Glasgow as a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...
(CDP). The census definition of the area may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with the same name. As of the 2010 census the Glasgow CDP had a population of 763. The place name for Glasgow in the
Coos language
The Coosan (also Coos or Kusan) language family consists of two languages spoken along the southern Oregon coast. Both languages are now extinct.
Classification
* Hanis ''†''
* Miluk ''†'' ( Lower Coquille)
Melville Jacobs (1939) says tha ...
is ''Kdet''.
Glasgow is located on the north side of Coos Bay, about north of the city of Coos Bay, just east of
U.S. Route 101
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.
The community was founded by real estate speculators in the 1890s, including Henry L. Pittock, Phil Metschan, and Admiral Schley of the Pacific Coal & Transportation Company. The community did not flourish until 30 years after its founding, when construction of Route 101 made Glasgow the northern terminus of the ferry from North Bend, which was used to cross the bay prior to the completion of the Coos Bay Bridge. The place was supposedly named by a Scot because it reminded him of
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
,
Scotland
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, but the authors of ''
Oregon Geographic Names
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'' were unable to verify this.
Glasgow has a store and a Grange hall, the North Bayside Grange, also known as the Glasgow Grange, that was built in 1928. A humorous sign at the store states that the community's population is "275.5", the .5 for store owner and "self-proclaimed mayor", Jack S. Stevens.
Demographics
As of the 2020 census, there were 785 people, 395 housing units, and 394 families in the CDP. There were 683
White
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people,3
African Americans
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, 15 Native Americans, 17
Asians
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, 6 people from some other race, and 61 people from two or more races. 334 people were from
Hispanic or Latino
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German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
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**Ger ...
, 6.8%
English
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* English language
* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
, and 3.4%
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
.
The median age was 57.3 years old. 31.3% of the population were older than 65, with 18.0% between the ages of 65 to 74, 12.0% between the ages of 75 to 84, and 1.4% 85 or older.