Where is Seaside?
A: Seaside is a city in Clatsop County,
Oregon, United States, on the coast
of the Pacific Ocean.
The name Seaside is derived from what?
A: Seaside House, a historic summer resort built in the 1870s by railroad
magnate Ben Holladay.
The Clatsop were a historic what?
A: Native American tribe that had a village named Ne-co-tat (in their
Chinook language) in this area.
Indigenous peoples had long inhabited what?
A: The coastal area.
About January 1, 1806, a group of men from the
Lewis
and Clark Expedition built what?
A: A salt-making cairn at the site later developed as Seaside.
The city was not incorporated until when?
A: February 17, 1899, when coastal resort areas were being settled.
It is about 79 miles (127 km) by car northwest of what?
A: Portland, Oregon, a major population center.
In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843–1932) was elected
what?
A: Mayor of Seaside.
Gilbert was a French immigrant, and a what?
A: A veteran of the Franco Prussian War (1870-1871).
After living in San Francisco, California and Astoria,
Oregon, Gilbert moved to Seaside where he had what built?
A: A beach cottage (built in 1885).
Gilbert was a real estate developer who donated land to
the City of Seaside for its what?
A: Its one-and-a-half-mile-long Promenade, or "Prom," along the Pacific
beach.
Nearly 100 years later, what was known as the Gilbert
House was operated commercially as what?
A: The Gilbert Inn since the mid-1980s.
Both it and Gilbert's eponymous "Gilbert Block" office
building on Broadway still what?
A: Survive.
Gilbert died at home in Seaside and is interred where?
A: In Ocean View Abbey Mausoleum in Warrenton.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city
has a total area of what?
A: 4.14 square miles (10.72 km2).
Seaside lies on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, at the
southern end of what?
A: The Clatsop Plains, about 29 km (18 mi) south of where the Columbia River
empties into the Pacific.
The city is developed on both sides of what river?
A: The Necanicum River, which flows to the ocean at the city's northern
edge.
The geography associated with the gradual slope of the
broad sandy beaches of Clatsop Spit provide excellent conditions for what?
A: The formation of beds of millions of Pacific razor clams annually.
Waves attract surfers all year round from the
challenging point break off the tip of Tillamook Head to what?
A: The sandy shores at "the cove" parking lot at Ocean Vista Drive.
Seaside has what kind of climate?
A: A typical Pacific Northwest climate, bordering very closely on a
warm-summer Mediterranean climate.
Mean high temperature in the warmest month, August, is
roughly what?
A: 68 °F (20 °C).
The warmest heatwaves, however, occur in what month?
A: September.
The hottest day on record was what?
A: 95 °F (35 °C), which occurred on both September 23, 1943 and September
24, 1974.
The coldest temperature ever recorded was what?
A: 5 °F (−15 °C) which occurred on December 8, 1972.
The City of Seaside has embarked on a program in which
residents above the zone are asked to what?
A: Volunteer to store within their homes barrels of medical supplies, water
purification systems, emergency rations, tarps, and radios, with each barrel
having enough supplies to last 20 individuals for at least 3 days.
As of January 2017, there are how many barrels within
volunteer households?
A: 119 and a waiting list of interested households.
Seismologists estimate that there is a one in three
chance that Seaside will be hit by what?
A: An earthquake and tsunami within the next fifty years.
On Tues. Nov. 8, 2016, Seaside citizens voted 65% to
35% to issue $99.7 million in bonds to move the remaining three schools
where?
A: Out of the tsunami inundation zone.
As of the census of 2010, there were how many people
living in Seaside?
A: 6,457 people, 2,969 households, and 1,565 families residing in the city.