Barnesdale is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...

(CDP) in

Tillamook County, Oregon Tillamook County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,390. The county seat is Tillamook. The county is named for the Tillamook people or Killamook people, a Native American tri ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP before the 2020 census. The CDP is in northern Tillamook County, in the valley of Foley Creek, a north-flowing tributary of the

Nehalem River The Nehalem River is a river on the Pacific coast of northwest Oregon in the United States, approximately long. It drains part of the Northern Oregon Coast Range northwest of Portland, originating on the east side of the mountains and flowing in ...

. Miami-Foley Road is the main road through the community, leading north for to

Oregon Route 53 Oregon Route 53 is an Oregon state highway that runs through a pair of river valleys in the Oregon Coast range; those of the Necanicum River and the Nehalem River. OR 53 traverses the Necanicum Highway No. 46 of the Oregon state hi ...

, from where it is a further to Nehalem along

U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a major north–south highway that traverses the states of California, Oregon, and Washington on the West Coast of the United States. It is part of the United States Numbered Highway Syst ...

. To the south of Barnesdale, it is to US-101 between

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and Hobsonville.

Demographics

Education

It is in the

Neah-Kah-Nie School District 56 The Neah-Kah-Nie School District is located in north Tillamook County, Oregon, Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. There are four schools in the district: Neah-Kah-Nie High School, Neah-Kah-Nie Middle School, Garibaldi Grade School, and Ne ...

. The district's comprehensive high school is

Neah-Kah-Nie High School Neah-Kah-Nie High School is a public high school located in Rockaway Beach, Oregon, Rockaway Beach, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Neah-Kah-Nie School District. Neahkahnie Mountain is only north of the school. In 2017 construction on a ...

. The county is in the

Tillamook Bay Community College Tillamook Bay Community College (TBCC) is a public community college in Tillamook, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1981, after Clatsop Community College announced it would no longer offer classes in Tillamook County. The college offers ...

district.

References

Census-designated places in Tillamook County, Oregon Census-designated places in Oregon {{TillamookCountyOR-geo-stub