Hauser is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Coos County,
Oregon
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, United States.
It is along
U.S. Route 101
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, south of
Lakeside and north of
North Bend.
Hauser is on the edge of the
Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area
The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is located on the Oregon Coast, stretching approximately north of the Coos River in North Bend to the Siuslaw River in Florence, and adjoining Honeyman State Park on the west. It is part of Siuslaw Nat ...
near North Slough, a tributary of
Coos Bay
Coos Bay is an estuary where the Coos River enters the Pacific Ocean, the estuary is approximately 12 miles long and up to two miles wide. It is the largest estuary completely within Oregon state lines. The Coos Bay watershed covers an area of abou ...
once known as the North Inlet of Coos Bay.
It is a station on the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad
The Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad is a Class II railroad operating between Northern California and Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was previously a mainline owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) between Eugene and Weed, Califor ...
(formerly the Southern Pacific
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).[
Hauser was originally named "North Slough" but it was decided the name was unsuitable.] It was renamed after Eric V. Hauser of Portland
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* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
* Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...
, who, with his sons, had a construction contract on the railroad in about 1914.[ Hauser is also the namesake of the library at ]Reed College
Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...
in Portland and he once owned the Multnomah Hotel. Hauser post office ran from 1915 to 1957.[
Charles D. McFarlin of built the first known ]cranberry
Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus ''Oxycoccus'' of the genus ''Vaccinium''. In Britain, cranberry may refer to the native species ''Vaccinium oxycoccos'', while in North America, cranberry ...
bog on the West Coast West Coast or west coast may refer to:
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* Western Australia
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* West Coast, Tasmania
**West Coast Range, mountain range in the region
Canada
* Britis ...
in what is now Hauser in 1884.
References
Unincorporated communities in Coos County, Oregon
1915 establishments in Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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