Explore Bayshore, Oregon, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bayshore, Oregon. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Oregon or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bayshore.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Bayshore |
| State | Oregon (OR) |
| County | Lincoln County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 44.43873 |
| Longitude | -124.074842 |
| Population | 952 |
| Density | 263.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 97394 |
| Area Code | 503, 971 |
| County Seat | Newport |
| School District | Lincoln County School District |
Bayshore reveals itself where the Alsea River meets the Pacific Ocean in a quiet confluence of salt-spray and sediment. It lies 13.7 miles south of Newport, OR (from Newport, OR: bearing 184°T), and is situated 0.9 miles north-northwest of Waldport. The landscape is defined by the damp, heavy breath of the coast, where the air holds a permanent chill and the light at dusk turns the Pacific Ocean into a sheet of hammered pewter. Inland, the distant silhouette of the Coast Range anchors the horizon, standing as a dark, jagged boundary against the sky. Near the water, the terrain softens into the quiet basin of Howe Canyon, while the verdant expanse of the Yachats Purchase Unit provides a deep, shadowed contrast to the exposed, shifting sands of the shoreline. The Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area guards the nearby waters, ensuring that the jagged rocks and coastal outcrops remain a sanctuary for the seals and seabirds that define the local rhythm.
Bayshore remains tethered to the tides, its economy a persistent dialogue between the seasonal harvest of the river and the unpredictable reach of the Pacific Ocean. History here is written in the debris of the high-water line and the weathered wood of structures that have withstood decades of winter gales. The local pace is dictated not by the clock, but by the movement of the Alsea River, which pulls the life of the area toward the harbor and the open water. Residents often look toward the nearby presence of Lotus Lake, a calm, landlocked mirror that offers a reprieve from the relentless energy of the surf. Life in Bayshore exists in the gaps between the storms, a deliberate and quiet endurance that values the steady, gray persistence of the maritime climate above all else.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bayshore, Oregon. Coordinates: 44.43873, -124.074842. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Bayshore includes the ZIP code (97394), telephone area code (503, 971), county seat of Lincoln County (Newport), and school district assignment (Lincoln County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |