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History · Manzanita

Manzanita’s post office opened in 1914, and 10% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Pine Grove Community House. Below: maps from 1937 on and the census since 1950.

1914first post office
1on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
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How Manzanita began

When was Manzanita founded?

1914

The Manzanita post office opened in 1914, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1946.

First census: 339 in 19502020 census: 603112 years
Founding year: the first Manzanita post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1946.The full story ↓

What stands out about Manzanita’s past

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

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The story

How Manzanita came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Manzanita.

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The indigenous Tillamook people lived along the Oregon coast, including the Manzanita area (tidewaters of the Nehalem Bay), for about 12,000 years. They suffered from smallpox and other illnesses brought by white settlers, and the few remaining Tillamook people were relocated to the Siletz and Grand Ronde reservations in the 1850s.

At least two of Oregon's historical shipwrecks occurred off the Manzanita coast: the Glenesslin in 1913, and the Santo Cristo de Burgos (disappeared 1693) which has generated rumors of treasure buried on Neahkahnie Mountain.

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Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Manzanita, 1914 to 1937

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1914Post officeThe Manzanita post office opens
  3. 1928BuiltPine Grove Community House is built
  4. 1937On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Manzanita, decade by decade

Today9 recent
October 14, 2016, Manzanita, Oregon, tornado track2017October 14, 2016, Manzanita, Oregon, tornado trackManzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 162017Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 16Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 152017Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 15Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 132017Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 13Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 072017Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 07Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 062017Manzanita, Oregon, 2017 - 06Revelation2014RevelationNeahkahnie Beach2011Neahkahnie BeachORMap-doton-Manzanita2004ORMap-doton-Manzanita
On the map

Manzanita on the map, 1937 to 1985

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

Manzanita on the 1937 USGS mapManzanita on the 1943 USGS mapManzanita on the 1955 USGS mapManzanita on the 1985 USGS map1937Nehalem 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 Manzanita.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Manzanita

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2017
Pine Grove Community House
Pine Grove Community House, built 1928
Buildings
Pine Grove Community HouseBuilt 1928

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Manzanita, census by census

01002003004005006001960198020002020Peak: 603

Between 339 and 603 people in every census since 1950.

8 censuses, 1950–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Manzanita’s Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Neahkahnie3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Manzanita’s history

What year was Manzanita founded?

The Manzanita post office opened in 1914, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1946.

What is on the National Register in Manzanita?

One place: the Pine Grove Community House (listed 2017).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (9), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.