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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Lincoln
- Mayor
- Craig Berdie
- Total
- 0.92 sq mi (2.39 km )
- Land
- 0.91 sq mi (2.36 km )
- Water
- 0.012 sq mi (0.03 km )
- Elevation
- 190 ft (58 m)
- Density
- 1,091.5/sq mi (421.43/km )
- Demonym
- Yachatian ( yah- HAY -shun )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 (Pacific)
- Fips code
- 41-84200
- Website
- yachatsoregon.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Yachats
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lincoln County
- Population
- 994
- Area
- 2.390376
- Elevation
- 45
- Time zone
- Pacific Time Zone
- Official website
- yachatsoregon.org
- Image
- Yachats.jpg
- Households
- 330
- Dialing code
- 541
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- postal code
- 97498
- Commons category
- Yachats, Oregon
- inception
- 1967-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 1.3523
- per capita income
- 42517
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Encyclopedic overview
Yachats (/ˈjɑːhɑːts/ YAH-hahts) is a small coastal city in the southernmost area of Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. According to Oregon Geographic Names, the name comes from the Siletz language and means "at the foot of the mountain". There is a range of differing etymologies. William Bright says the name comes from the Alsea placename yáx̣ayk (IPA: /ˈjaχajkʲ/). At the 2020 census, the city's population was 994.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yachats” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.