Svensen is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) on 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 ...

in Clatsop County,

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, United States, named after early settler Peter Svensen. There was a

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

in Svensen from 1895 to 1944. Since the closure of the Svensen Post Office, mail service has been provided by rural carriers of the

Astoria, Oregon Astoria is a Port, port city in and the county seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. The county is the ...

post office. Svensen is within the Knappa School District.

Demographics

History

Svensen and Svensen Island are separated by Svensen Slough on the south side of the Columbia River at River Mile 24, between Settler's Point (downstream) and Knappa (upstream). The

Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select gro ...

encamped in this area on November 26, 1805, en route to winter camp at

Fort Clatsop Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805–1806. Located along the Lewis and Clark River at the north end of the Clatsop Plains approxi ...

. The

Corps of Discovery The Corps of Discovery was a specially established unit of the United States Army which formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that took place between May 1804 and September 1806. The Corps was led jointly by Captain Meriwether Lewi ...

again passed through the area on March 24, 1806 on their return journey.

Education

It is in the Knappa School District 4. The comprehensive high school of that district is

Knappa High School Knappa High School is a public high school near Knappa, Oregon, United States. The school is located on Old Highway 30, 12 miles east of Astoria and 90 miles from Portland, between Svensen and Knappa. The Knappa School District (of which this i ...

. Clatsop County is in the boundary of

Clatsop Community College Clatsop Community College (CCC) is a public community college with facilities in Astoria and Seaside, Oregon. The college's service area includes Clatsop County, portions of Columbia and Tillamook counties and Pacific and Wahkiakum counties ...

Gallery

File:Old building - Svenson Oregon.jpg,

on Old Highway 30 Hilda Lahti Elementary School is located to the left behind the high school. File:Grange - Svenson Oregon.jpg, Wickiup Grange #722

Grange Grange may refer to: Buildings * Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906 * Grange Estate, Pennsylvania, built in 1682 * The Grange (Toronto), Toronto, Ontario, built in 1817 * Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to ...

Hall File:NEAR THE COLUMBIA RIVER ON SVENSON ISLE - NARA - 545041.jpg, 1972 photograph of a house near the river File:BOATHOUSE ON SVENSON ISLE - NARA - 545137.jpg, 1972 photograph of a boathouse on the river

References

External links

* at ColumbiaRiverImages.com *Oregon State Grange http://orgrange.org/find-a-grange/#Clatsop Unincorporated communities in Clatsop County, Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon Census-designated places in Clatsop County, Oregon Census-designated places in Oregon 1895 establishments in Oregon Populated places established in 1895 Oregon populated places on the Columbia River {{ClatsopCountyOR-geo-stub