Nestucca Bay

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Nestucca Bay is a bay formed by the confluence of the Nestucca River and the Pacific Ocean in northwest Oregon in the United States.{{cite gnis |id=1163171 |name=Nestucca Bay |links=off |accessdate=2013-03-24}} It is near the town of Pacific City, which is in southwestern Tillamook County, about {{convert|12|mi|km}} south of Cape Lookout.{{cite book |title= Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer |edition= 7th |year= 2008 |publisher= DeLorme |location= Yarmouth, Maine |isbn= 0-89933-347-8 |page= 26}} The bay is a bar-built estuary and totals {{convert|1000|acre|km2}} in area.{{cite web

| url = http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/3789/Nestucca_River_Estuary_ocr.pdf?sequence=1

| title = An Inventory of Filled Lands in Nestucca River Estuary

| format = PDF

| date = August 1972

| author = Advisory Committee to the State Land Board

| publisher = Oregon State University Scholars Archive

| page = 2

| accessdate = 2013-03-24

}}

The Nestucca and Little Nestucca rivers enter the bay. The bay is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the Nestucca Spit which includes Bob Straub State Park. A part of Nestucca Bay is included in the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge.