Neahkahnie Beach (or Neahkahnie) is a

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 ...

and

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 Tillamook County,

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, United States. It is located west of

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 ...

, comprising approximately 370 residences north of the city of

Manzanita Manzanita is a common name for many species of the genus '' Arctostaphylos''. They are evergreen shrubs or small trees present in the chaparral biome of western North America, where they occur from Southern British Columbia and Washington to O ...

, at the foot of

Neahkahnie Mountain Neahkahnie Mountain is a mountain, or headland, on the Oregon Coast, north of Manzanita, Oregon, Manzanita in Oswald West State Park overlooking U.S. Route 101, that has a pass elevation of approximately , which is the third highest point of the ...

. For statistical purposes, the

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has defined Neahkahnie as a

(CDP). The census definition of the area may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with the same name. According to the 2020 Census, the population was 197.

Education

It is in the Neah-Kah-Nie School District 56. 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

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