Nahcotta, Washington

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Nahcotta was first settled in 1890 by J.A. Morehead and named for Nahcati, the chief of a local Chinook tribe.{{Cite book| last = Majors | first = Harry M. | title = Exploring Washington | publisher = Van Winkle Publishing Co | year = 1975 | page = 115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ| isbn = 978-0-918664-00-6}}{{cite news |last=Lacitis |first=Erik |date=March 15, 2021 |title=She got $662/month to run a tiny Washington town post office. When asked for more, USPS shut it down. |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/she-wanted-to-pay-the-post-office-employees-in-this-tiny-washington-town-more-than-8-33-an-hour-usps-shut-the-place-down/ |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=March 15, 2021}} Nahcotta was once the northern terminal of the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, a narrow gauge railroad which ran from Ilwaco, and later from Megler, in southwestern Pacific County, up the Long Beach Peninsula to Nahcotta and back, once a day. The railroad was in operation from 1889 to 1930.

The community had a small contract post office that opened in 1889 and was maintained by a pair of local residents out of a small building. The post office was closed on February 27, 2021, after a request from the operators for additional funds was denied by the United States Postal Service.

• Steamboats of Willapa Bay

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• Greene, Trecia R.; Portrait of Peninsula Woman; Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, Inc., 2006. Portraits of Nahcotta women published in the Long Beach Peninsula's Chinook Observer between September 2001 and June 2005.

• [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/fishimages&CISOPTR=44898&REC=1 Razor clam cannery, 1916]
• [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/indocc&CISOPTR=636&CISORESTMP=/site-templates/search_results-sub.html&CISOVIEWTMP=/site-templates/item_viewer.html&CISOMODE=thumb&CISOGRID=thumbnail,A,1;title,A,1;subjec,A,0;descri,200,0;0,A,0;10&CISOBIB=title,A,1,N;subjec,A,0,N;descri,K,0,N;0,A,0,N;0,A,0,N;10&CISOTHUMB=3,5&CISOTITLE=10 Oyster beds in Willapa Bay, circa 1900]
• [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/indocc&CISOPTR=36&CISORESTMP=/site-templates/search_results-sub.html&CISOVIEWTMP=/site-templates/item_viewer.html&CISOMODE=thumb&CISOGRID=thumbnail,A,1;title,A,1;subjec,A,0;descri,200,0;0,A,0;10&CISOBIB=title,A,1,N;subjec,A,0,N;descri,K,0,N;0,A,0,N;0,A,0,N;10&CISOTHUMB=3,5&CISOTITLE=10 Oystering in Willapa Bay circa 1940]

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Pacific County, Washington

Category:Ilwaco Railway stations

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