Netarts Oregon Map

About Netarts, Oregon

Netarts is a locality in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. It is a small community with a population of 894. The population density is 132.9 people per km². Netarts is located at 45.4348°N, 123.9460°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 97141, 97143.

Netarts occupies a narrow, salt-sprayed margin where the persistent pulse of the Pacific meets the quiet, brackish expanse of Netarts Bay. It lies 39.5 miles west-northwest of McMinnville, OR (from McMinnville, OR: bearing 293°T), and is situated 5.2 miles west-southwest of Tillamook. Hodgdon Creek cuts a slender, silver path through the landscape, feeding into the basin before the tide claims the mudflats in a slow, rhythmic surrender of color. The air here holds a heavy, cool dampness, tasting of brine and ancient cedar, while the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Range anchors the eastern horizon against the encroaching gray of the clouds. Beyond the sandbars, the jagged silhouette of Seal Rock rises from the surf, a solitary sentinel that marks the boundary of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area, where the wind seems to sharpen its edge against the crags.

Economic life in Netarts remains tethered to the water, a tradition sustained by the harvest of oysters and the patient work of small-scale commercial fishing. Generations of residents have oriented their days around the shifting tides, finding a quiet stability in the seasonal cycles of the estuary that far removed from the frantic pace of the interior. While the nearby South Prairie offers a pastoral counterpoint to the salt-drenched terrain, the character of the place is defined by its isolation and the raw, unadorned beauty of the shoreline. Even the quietest afternoons near Tomlinson Slough carry the weight of a long-standing solitude, as if the land itself prefers the company of the gulls and the relentless, murmuring sea over the clamor of the modern world.

About This Netarts Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Netarts, Oregon. Coordinates: 45.434825, -123.945961. 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 Netarts includes the ZIP code (97141, 97143), telephone area code (503, 971), county seat of Tillamook County (Tillamook), and school district assignment (Tillamook School District 9).

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.