Charleston, Oregon | |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | USA Oregon#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Charleston |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Oregon |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Oregon |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Coos |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2000 |
Population Footnotes: | 670 |
Population Total: | 795 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | Pacific (PST) |
Utc Offset: | -8 |
Timezone Dst: | PDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -7 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation Ft: | 102 |
Coordinates: | 43.34°N -124.33°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Postal Code: | 97420 |
Area Code: | 541 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1136140 |
Charleston (Milukwich[2]) is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States. Charleston is the least populated (Pop. 795 [2017]) community in Oregon's Bay Area and is Home to a large commercial fishing fleet, it is adjacent to the ocean entrance to Coos Bay.[3] Charleston is the site of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology[4] and the United States Coast Guard Charleston Lifeboat Station.[5]
Charleston was named for Charles Haskell, a settler who filed a land claim along South Slough in 1853. South Slough is an arm of Coos Bay, which it enters near the bay's mouth on the Pacific Ocean.[6] Oregon Route 540, which crosses the slough southwest of Barview, passes through Charleston and links it to three state parks further south along the coast: Sunset Bay, Shore Acres, and Cape Arago.[6]
Postal authorities established a post office in Charleston in 1924. The community's ZIP code is 97420.[7]
The South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a 4770acres reserve along the Coos Bay Estuary, was established in Charleston in 1974.[8] It was the first of 28 such reserves in the United States and the only one in Oregon.[8]