Charleston, Oregon Milukwich (Coos) | |
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 An evening view of the National Estuarine Research Reserve slough | |
  Charleston Location within the state of Oregon Show map of Oregon Charleston Charleston (the United States) Show map of the United States | |
| Coordinates:43°20′24″N124°19′48″W / 43.34000°N 124.33000°W /43.34000; -124.33000 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Coos |
| Elevation | 102 ft (31 m) |
| Population (2000)670 | |
• Total | 795 |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP codes | 97420 |
| Area code | 541 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1136140 |
Charleston (Coos:Milukwich[2]) is anunincorporated community inCoos County,Oregon, United States. Charleston is the least populated (Pop. 795 [2017]) community in Oregon's Bay Area. Home to a large commercial fishing fleet, it is adjacent to the ocean entrance toCoos Bay.[3] Charleston is the site of theOregon Institute of Marine Biology[4] and theUnited States Coast Guard Charleston Lifeboat Station.[5]
Charleston was named for Charles Haskell, asettler who filed a land claim along South Slough in 1853.[6] South Slough is an arm of Coos Bay, which it enters near the bay's mouth on the Pacific Ocean.[7]Oregon Route 540, which crosses the slough southwest ofBarview, passes through Charleston and links it to three state parks further south along the coast:Sunset Bay,Shore Acres, andCape Arago.[7]
Postal authorities established a post office in Charleston in 1924.[6] The community's ZIP code is 97420.[8]
TheSouth Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a 4,770-acre (1,930 ha) reserve along the Coos BayEstuary, was established in Charleston in 1974.[9] It was the first of 28 such reserves in the United States and the only one in Oregon.[9]
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