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History · Bayshore

Half of Bayshore’s homes were built after 1990

Most of Bayshore was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Below: maps from 1922 on.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Bayshore’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Bayshore are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Bayshore.On the map since 19224 editions of the USGS map, 1922 to 1984. Watch Bayshore change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bayshore’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Lutgens
1890–1917
Stanford
1893–1897
Nice
1917–1919
18901960today
Gone or out of use
Alsea Bay - North Bridgehead WaysideparkLutgens Post Officepost officeNice Post Officepost office

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

On the map

Bayshore on the map, 1922 to 1984

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Bayshore. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Bayshore on the 1922 USGS mapBayshore on the 1942 USGS mapBayshore on the 1956 USGS mapBayshore on the 1984 USGS map1922Waldport sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Bayshore.

The story so far

Bayshore, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Bayshore yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Bayshore is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. As of the 2020 census, Bayshore had a population of 952. The CDP is in southern Lincoln County, bordered to the south by Alsea Bay and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. The city of Waldport is to the south across Alsea Bay. U.S. Route 101 passes through Bayshore, leading north 14 miles (23 km) to Newport, the Lincoln county seat, and south through Waldport 10 miles (16 km) to Yachats.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Bayshore, 1890 to 1922

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1890Post officeThe Lutgens post office opens
  3. 1893Post officeThe Stanford post office opens
  4. 1897Post officeThe Stanford post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1917Post officeThe Lutgens post office closes
  7. 1917Post officeThe Nice post office opens
  8. 1919Post officeThe Nice post office closes
  9. 1922On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Bayshore

Nobody well known was born in Bayshore itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Phil RogersWelsh potter · b. 1951
Wayne FiskRecipient of the Silver Star · b. 1945
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Andrew HermannAmerican racewalker · b. 1971
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Julia FishAmerican painter and draughtsperson · b. 1950
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Ken FantettiAmerican football player · b. 1957
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Keith T. PooleAmerican political scientist · b. 1947
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

WaldportIts storyC−

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.