The Skipanon River is a tributary of the

Columbia River The Columbia River (Upper Chinook language, Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin language, Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river headwater ...

, approximately long, on the

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coast of northwest

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in the United States. It is the last tributary of the Columbia on the Oregon side, draining an area of coastal bottom land bordered by

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s and entering the river from the south at its mouth west of Astoria. The Skipanon River issues from Cullaby Lake in western Clatsop County, northeast of Seaside and less than from the ocean. It flows north parallel to the coast and east of

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. It enters the northwest end of

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at the mouth of the Columbia approximately northeast of Warrenton. The mouth of the river is at river mile of the Columbia upstream from its mouth. The river's name comes from the Clatsop language, originally referring to a point at the river's mouth rather than the river itself. The charts of the

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show the stream as Skipanarwin Creek. Another variant spelling, Skeppernawin, was common on maps into the 20th century.

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External links

Skipanon Watershed Assessment Report (August, 2000) (PDF)

Bit of history: "We went up the Skipanon River frum Astoria, where father settled on a squatter's claim."
{{authority control Rivers of Oregon Rivers of Clatsop County, Oregon Tributaries of the Columbia River Oregon placenames of Native American origin

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