Hauser 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 ...

in Coos County,

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, United States. It is along

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, south of Lakeside and north of North Bend. Hauser is on the edge of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area near North Slough, a tributary of

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once known as the North Inlet of Coos Bay. It is a station on the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad (formerly the Southern Pacific). Hauser was originally named "North Slough" but it was decided the name was unsuitable. It was renamed after Eric V. Hauser of Portland, who, with his sons, had a construction contract on the railroad in about 1914. Hauser is also the namesake of the library at

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in Portland and he once owned the Multnomah Hotel. Hauser post office ran from 1915 to 1957. Charles D. McFarlin of

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built the first known

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bog on the West Coast in what is now Hauser in 1884.

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Unincorporated communities in Coos County, Oregon 1915 establishments in Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{CoosCountyOR-geo-stub