Alsea, Oregon: Difference between revisions

{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States}}

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Alsea, Oregon

| footnote = U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly">{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:41&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=Oct 12, 2022}}</ref>

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==History==

Alsea was named for the Alsea River, whose name was a corruption of "Alsi" (also spelled "Ulseah" and "Alsiias") the name of a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe, now known as the [[Alsea (tribe)|Alsea]], that lived at the mouth of the river. The Alsea area was settled by [[European-American|Europeans]] early as 1855, when the name "Alseya Settlement" appeared on the [[Surveyor general|Surveyor general's]] map. Alsea post office was established in 1871.<ref name="OGN">{{cite book | last = McArthur | first = Lewis A. | author-link = Lewis A. McArthur |author2=Lewis L. McArthur |author2-link=Lewis L. McArthur | title = [[Oregon Geographic Names]] | orig-year = 1928 | edition = 7th| year = 2003 | publisher = [[Oregon Historical Society]] Press | location = Portland, Oregon| isbn = 0-87595-277-1 | pages = 19–20 }}</ref>

 

[[Alsea High School]], home of the Alsea Wolverines, is a charter school that serves k-12 and has a population of 460 students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. News |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/oregon/alsea-charter-school-16388 |url-status=live |website=US News Education}}</ref>

==Covered bridge==

[[File:Hayden (Alsea) Bridge interior.jpg|alt=Interior of the Hayden Bridge, west of Alsea, Oregon.|thumb|314x314px|Interior of the Hayden Bridge over the Alsea River in the U.S. state of Oregon. View is to the south along Hayden Road, just south of its intersection with Oregon Route 34 about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Alsea, Oregon.]]