1952 Map of Clatskanie

About this map

The Columbia River corridor dominates this 1952 revision, serving as a complex maritime and industrial artery between Oregon and Washington. The river is a maze of tidewater features including Gull Island, Crims Island, and the winding Bradbury Slough. On the Oregon side, the town of Clatskanie is situated at the edge of the floodplains, while the surrounding timbered hills are home to a network of rural settlements and abandoned institutions. Evidence of early twentieth-century education is preserved in the locations of the Cedar Grove Sch (Aban'd) and Lost Creek Sch (Aban'd). The map details a landscape transitioning from the river-bottom economy of Mayger and Quincy to the upland forests marked by the Benson Lookout and small inland hamlets like Swedetown and Apiary.