The Tillamook River is a stream, about long, near the coast of northwest
Oregon
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in the
United States
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. It drains an oceanside valley in the foothills of the
Northern Oregon Coast Range
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west of
Portland and empties into the
Pacific Ocean
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via
Tillamook Bay.
It is one of five rivers—the Tillamook, the
Trask, the
Wilson, the
Kilchis, and the
Miami
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—that flow into the bay.
Rising in southern
Tillamook County about east of
Cape Lookout, it flows initially east, then generally north, through a long broadening farming valley, passing west of
Tillamook Tillamook may refer to:
Places:
* Tillamook County, Oregon, United States
* Tillamook, Oregon, a city, the seat of Tillamook County
* Tillamook River, United States
* Tillamook Bay, a bay in the northwestern part of Oregon
* Tillamook Head, a natu ...
and entering the south end of
Tillamook Bay. For its lower , it shares a channel with the
Trask River.
Although much of the upper watershed of about is forested, much of the lower valley consists of drained pasture land.
Home of the
Tillamook County Creamery Association, the county has been called "a natural cow pasture" by ''Sunset Magazine".
Tributaries
Named tributaries from source to mouth are Mills, Munson, Joe, Simmons, Fawcett, Killam, and Bewley creeks. Then come Sutton, Beaver, Anderson, Fagan, Esther, Tomlinson, Memaloose, and Dick creeks.
See also
*
List of rivers of Oregon
This is a partial listing of rivers in the state of Oregon, United States. This list of Oregon rivers is organized alphabetically and by tributary structure. The list may also include streams known as creeks, brooks, forks, branches and prongs, as ...
References
External links
Tillamook Estuaries Partnership
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Rivers of Oregon
Rivers of Tillamook County, Oregon