Hauser, Oregon

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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|image_caption = Hauser Store along Wildwood Road

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|unit_pref = Imperial

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|timezone = Pacific (PST)

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Hauser is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States.{{cite gnis |id= 1143366 |name= Hauser |entrydate= November 28, 1980 |accessdate= 2010-12-21}} It is along U.S. Route 101, {{convert|7|mi|km}} south of Lakeside and {{convert|6|mi|km|0}} north of North Bend.{{cite book |title= Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer |edition= 7th |year= 2008 |publisher= DeLorme |location= Yarmouth, Maine |isbn= 978-0-89933-347-2 |page= 44}} Hauser is on the edge of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area near North Slough, a tributary of Coos Bay once known as the North Inlet of Coos Bay.{{cite gnis |id= 1147064 |name= North Slough |entrydate= November 28, 1980 |accessdate= 2010-12-21}} It is a station on the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad (formerly the Southern Pacific).

Hauser was originally named "North Slough" but it was decided the name was unsuitable.{{Cite OGN|7th|page=451}}{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich |title= Oregon: End of the Trail |author= Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon |series= American Guide Series |year= 1940 |publisher= Binfords & Mort |location= Portland, Oregon |page= [https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich/page/380 380] |oclc= 4874569}}{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4i1grNoMcWgC&q=Hauser |title= In Search of Western Oregon |author= Friedman, Ralph |authorlink= Ralph Friedman |year= 1990 |edition= 2nd |page= 84|publisher= The Caxton Printers, Ltd |location= Caldwell, Idaho |isbn= 0-87004-332-3}} It was renamed after Eric V. Hauser of Portland, who, with his sons, had a construction contract on the railroad in about 1914. Hauser is also the namesake of the library at Reed College in Portland and he once owned the Multnomah Hotel.{{cite journal |url= http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/Nov2000/a_short_history/3.html |title= The Reed Library: A Short History |journal= Reed Magazine |date= November 2000 |accessdate= 2010-12-21}}{{cite web |url= http://files.usgwarchives.org/or/multnomah/bios/hausersr457gbs.txt |title= Hauser, Sr., Eric V. December 10, 1864 - |work= Multnomah County Oregon Archives Biographies |author= The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company |accessdate= 2010-12-21 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120331180426/http://files.usgwarchives.org/or/multnomah/bios/hausersr457gbs.txt |archivedate= March 31, 2012 }} Hauser post office ran from 1915 to 1957.

Charles D. McFarlin of Massachusetts built the first known cranberry bog on the West Coast in what is now Hauser in 1884.{{cite web |url= http://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/2839/Curry_County_Hazard_Mitigation_Plan.pdf?sequence=1 |title= Curry County Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan |publisher= Curry County Emergency Management |page= 2.1.26 |accessdate= 2010-12-21}}{{cite web |url= http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=93368EAC-9541-0A00-2485A7EC7CC99FFA |title= Picking Cranberries at Sandlake |publisher= Oregon Historical Society |last= Allen |first= Cain |year= 2006 |accessdate= 2010-12-21}}