Английская Википедия:Charleston, Oregon

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Charleston (Шаблон:Lang-csz[1]) is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States. Charleston is the least populated (Pop. 795 [2017]) community in Oregon's Bay Area and is Home to a large commercial fishing fleet, it is adjacent to the ocean entrance to Coos Bay.[2] Charleston is the site of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology[3] and the United States Coast Guard Charleston Lifeboat Station.[4]

Charleston was named for Charles Haskell, a settler who filed a land claim along South Slough in 1853.[5] South Slough is an arm of Coos Bay, which it enters near the bay's mouth on the Pacific Ocean.[6] Oregon Route 540, which crosses the slough southwest of Barview, passes through Charleston and links it to three state parks further south along the coast: Sunset Bay, Shore Acres, and Cape Arago.[6]

Postal authorities established a post office in Charleston in 1924.[5] The community's ZIP code is 97420.[7]

Estuarine Research Reserve

The South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a Шаблон:Convert reserve along the Coos Bay Estuary, was established in Charleston in 1974.[8] It was the first of 28 such reserves in the United States and the only one in Oregon.[8]

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