Talk:Tillamook County, Oregon

I know you people will delete this but

How has the intro devolved into some crap on the natives? We know so little and as someone born and raised in the country it has no bearing on a contemporary wiki article on the county, put it in a sub section. It reads like a buffoon who never lived her decided to try their hand on talking about our home. It's garbage, it's misplaced and for the record I have done as much research as can be done on the tribes of the area, there is just so little to really find at this point outside of real academic inquiry. This article is simply so off base it should be corrected. I will refrain from my attemps because I know how wikipedia is. I weep for the state of this site and the happy few who seem to run it all into the ground. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.27.169.198 (talk) 10:34, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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A short entry about popular references could include the Todd Snider song "Tillamook County Jail" off of his album East Nashville Skyline. If no one else gets around to it, I will add it in the near future. Leeannedy 10:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Communities

I dewikilinked all the places that don't link from anyplace else besides this article. We have have enough obscure redlinked communities with List of ZIP Codes in Oregon, List of cities in Oregon, and Wikipedia:U.S. cities without articles to keep us busy for a while without adding even more. Also, some of the places that are now part of larger cities could be given a write-up in the city articles and then redirected. Katr67 05:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Order

I changed the order to north to south.Kingjoey52a 23:56, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough, but when you do things like that, especially when you have been reverted (and in fact, when you make any edit on Wikipedia), you need to write an edit summary to explain what you are doing. Otherwise people like me freak out and assume it's vandalism. I don't think listing things north to south is generally a good idea, as this will have no meaning to anyone but a local. Your average Wikipedia user will expect things to be alphabetical. And besides, most counties don't have their incorporated cities conveniently arranged along one highway! There are certain exceptions such as List of lighthouses on the Oregon Coast, or various highway articles, like Route 101 (which for some reason goes south to north), but this order is made clear at the beginning. All the other lists of cities in the county articles are alphabetical, and it makes more sense to leave this one that way too. Thanks and happy editing! Katr67 02:37, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Strange border with Washington County

The Tillamook-Washington county border is a bit odd. It's a large eastward bulge, "stairstepped" along township/range lines. The Washington-Multnomah county border also stairsteps in this way. In that case the border more or less parallels the Willamette River, along the West Hills, giving Multnomah a strip along the river, and I'd guess the reason for the border is just that--to give that strip to Multnomah. But what is the deal with the Washington-Tillamook border? According to the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, the bulging border was originally not "stairstepped". It wasn't until longer after first defined that the border was redefined to follow township/range lines. But why the bulge? It looks like the bulge gives Tillamook County most of the Wilson River watershed (plus, in the northeast corner of the county, the Salmonberry River watershed, more or less). I'm curious whether this is how the county lines were defined. Perhaps the topic is too trivial or arcane to get into on Wikipedia. On the other hand, the stairstepping stands out on maps. It's long struck me as curious. Anyone know more? Pfly (talk) 05:48, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

If I recall correctly, Washington County's borders were mainly to coincide with the drainage of the Tualatin River, or at least so after all the other counties were formed out of it (Yamhill, Tuality/Washington, Clackamas, and Champooick/Marion were the original four). Then given that GPS and aerial photography were not around and things were a bit more remote, the lines were not exactly perfect as to the drainage basin. If I also recall, I believe there were efforts around the turn-of-the century (1900 one) where people tried to or had the issue placed on the ballot to correct this issues. I do know there was an attempt by Multnomah County to take more of eastern Washington County around that time, but that failed at the ballot. Might be worth a mention about boundaries in general at List of counties in Oregon. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC)